Innocent Sorcerers

Director: Andrzej Wajda

1960 / 87min / DCP

The story goes that when Andrzej Wajda, the most acclaimed Polish director to emerge in the postwar period, first met Skolimowski, Wadja showed the young poet the original script of Innocent Sorcerers, and when he criticized its depiction of youth culture, Wadja invited Skolimowski to rewrite it himself. The story of a twentysomething doctor (Tadeusz Łomnicki) who spends his evenings jazz drumming and flirting freely—until he passes a long night with a woman (Krystyna Stypulkowska) whose more than his match as a conversationalist and master of mind games.