Film
Chance Meeting on the Atlantic
Poland- Director
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Year
- 1980
Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack.
Top cast
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska
Magda
Ignacy Gogolewski
Nowak
Marek Walczewski
Walter
Małgorzata Wiśniewska-Niemirska
Irena
Feliks Parnell
Mr. Józef
Marek Lewandowski
Zbyszek
Wacław Ulewicz
Priest
Jerzy Braszka
Steward
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Chief Steward
Wiesława Kosmalska
Passenger (uncredited)
Zygmunt Maciejewski
Captain (uncredited)
Stanisław Michalski
Passenger (uncredited)
Andrzej Popiel
Passenger (uncredited)
Bogusław Stokowski
Radio Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Leszek Kubanek
Mr. Józef (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Written by
Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Bolesław Michałek