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1981 Tomasz Hudziec Teresa Marczewska Marek Kondrat Wojciech Marczewski
Original Title :
Dreszcze
Genre :
Movie / Drama / History
Year :
1981
Directror :
Wojciech Marczewski
Cast :
Tomasz Hudziec,Teresa Marczewska,Marek Kondrat
Writer :
Wojciech Marczewski
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 46min
Rating :
6.9/10

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Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It's winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Tomasz Hudziec Tomasz Hudziec - Tomek Zukowski
Teresa Marczewska Teresa Marczewska - Druhna przewodniczka
Marek Kondrat Marek Kondrat - Wychowawca klasowy
Zdzislaw Wardejn Zdzislaw Wardejn - Inspektor
Wladyslaw Kowalski Wladyslaw Kowalski - ojciec Tomka
Teresa Sawicka Teresa Sawicka - matka Tomka
Jerzy Binczycki Jerzy Binczycki - Cebula, nauczyciel jezyka polskiego
Bogdan Koca Bogdan Koca - Druh wychowawca
Zygmunt Bielawski Zygmunt Bielawski - Dyrektor osrodka szkoleniowego
Boguslaw Linda Boguslaw Linda - UB-ek w cywilu przeszukujacy mieszkanie Zukowskich
Mieczyslaw Janowski Mieczyslaw Janowski - Wychowawca obozowy
Wiktor Grotowicz Wiktor Grotowicz - Dyrektor szkoly
Marian Opania Marian Opania - Zbyszek
Ryszard Kotys Ryszard Kotys - Stróz
Gosia Dobrowolska Gosia Dobrowolska - Malgosia


User reviews

Jake

Jake

The muddled message drama apparently offended Polish authorities upon it's first appearance and was banned. It's a companion piece to the better THE BIG RACE or the Hungarian films ANGI VERA and THE WHISTLING COBLESTONE. I'd totally forgotten it till SHIVERS surfaced again in a sharp though yellow copy that looks like the improved, post-Glasnost Orwo color.

The plot has a boy whose father has been arrested for unspecified political offenses, allowed to attend a youth camp because a young woman Party Official believes in his character. There he finds himself acceptable to the dissident element who listen to Radio Free Europe but is able to distance himself from them, justifying the officer's faith in him. This doesn't work out as intended.

The one successful plot element in all this confusion is the depiction of the woman who is shown as understanding, serious and totally misguided. This is the kind of shading rare in argument pieces from any source.
Viashal

Viashal

We meet a cultivated and intelligent, independent-thinking family in the strictly communist Poland of the 1950s. The father of the family gets arrested for voicing anti-government opinions, and sentenced to imprisonment. Their young son, Tomek, gets sent to a communist youth camp for 're-education'.

The film depicts the boy's transformation, from initially like his father highly critical of the regime, to a staunch communist who snitches on his fellow students. The boy and his father meet again after his father's release. The shocked father is shattered when he discovers his son's transformation. A chilling turn of events indeed.

'Shivers' is an excellent film with fascinating script and believable performances, as well as above average cinematography. I score this ultimately disturbing film a very good 7.5/10.