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20 December 1984 (Hungary) more
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The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours... more | add synopsis
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2 wins & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Barbara Grabowska ... Kama
Adam Ferency ... Wojtek Kielza
Boguslaw Linda ... Gryziak
Olgierd Lukaszewicz ... Leon
Tomasz Miedzik ... Kamil
Aleksy Awdiejew ... Governor's Aide (as Aleksiej Awdiejew)
Wiktor Grotowicz ... Governor's Butler
Tadeusz Huk ... Chemist
Michal Juszczakiewicz ... Michal
Krzysztof Kiersznowski ... Activist
Marian Lacz ... Kielza's Uncle
Pawel Nowisz ... Wartki
Ryszard Sobolewski ... Governor
Michal Tarkowski ... Doctor
Krzysztof Zaleski ... Czarny
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Additional Details

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Fever
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122 min
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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Living on the edge, 19 January 2004
Author: Zmajina from Zagreb

"Fever" is an apt title for a film that does not hold back on passions and continues the streak of wild romanticism that could be seen in a dozen Polish films since the legendary "Ashes and Diamonds". The film's atmosphere is hard to describe, but imagine something in a Byron-meets-Kafka vein: idealistic and highly emotional characters crushed by an omnipresent and invisible dictatorship.

Hard-core anarchist, desperately enamored bomber, honest but naive peasant, happy-go-lucky hooligan... None of them is your standard fare good guy, but it is hard not to sympathize with their tragic destiny. Yes, there's tragedy and Central European gloom all over the place.

The most terrifying and symbolic sight of the film takes place after a hanging, when a platoon of soldiers starts stomping the ground where they have just buried the poor devil. Funeral march indeed. To drive the point home, a hooligan is continuously whistling that most famous funeral march of all, composed not so surprisingly by Chopin, another Pole.

What really surprises me is that I'm the first person writing a comment about this great movie. Polish film buffs, where have you gone?

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