Sami swoi

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Sami swoi
DVD cover of color version
Directed by	Sylwester Checinski
Written by	Andrzej Mularczyk
Starring	Waclaw Kowalski Wladyslaw Hancza Zdzislaw Karczewski
Music by	Wojciech Kilar
Cinematography	Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz
Editing by	Janina Niedzwiecka
Release date(s)	1967
Running time	81 min.
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
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Sami swoi (variously translated as All Friends Here or Our Folks) (1967) is the first part of a Polish comedy trilogy of movies by Sylwester Chęciński. Its two follow-ups are Nie ma mocnych (There are no strong ones) (1974) and Kochaj albo rzuć (Love or ditch) (1977).

1 The movie
2 The story
3 The actors
4 References
5 External links

[edit] The movie

The film was black and white but was colorized in 2000 by Dynacs Digital Studios for Polish tv station Polsat. The score was composed by Wojciech Kilar.

The movie was filmed mostly in Dobrzykowice near Wrocław, with some scenes at Lubomierz and surrounding areas.

It was one of the most popular Polish comedies of its times and still remains an old favourite. Lubomierz has a museum dedicated to the movies, and Toruń has a statue of the two main heroes, Kargul and Pawlak.

[edit] The story

The movie is the story of the two quarreling families, which after the end of the Second World War were resettled from Kresy to the Regained Territories, after Poland's borders were shifted westwards. The bad blood between them runs to the times one of Karguls plew a few inches ('3-fingers-width') into the Pawlak's territory, for which one of the Pawlaks hit him with a scythe and then escapes fearing retribution, emigrating to United States. Years later, he comes back, and finds that both families live peacefully. His brother, Kazimierz, tells him the story of how the families came to terms, in a form of Romeo and Juliet-like marriage between Pawlak's son, Witia, and Kargul's daughter, Jadźka.

[edit] The actors

Pawlak family
- Wacław Kowalski - Kazimierz
- Zdzisław Karczewski - Jan 'John'
- Jerzy Janeczek - Witia
- Maria Zbyszewska - Mania
- Natalia Szymańska - Leonia
- Zygmunt Bielawski - Paweł
Kargul family
- Władysław Hańcza - Władysław
- Ilona Kuśmierska - Jadwiga
- Halina Buyno-Łoza - Aniela
Others
- Eliasz Oparek-Kuziemski - Kokeszko
- Aleksander Fogiel - sołtys (village headman)
- Witold Pyrkosz - 'the guy from Warsaw'
- Kazimierz Talarczyk - Wieczorek
- Ryszard Kotys - seller of cats
- Andrzej Mrozek - Russian soldier
- Jan Łopuszniak - German priest