Salto (film)

Salto is a 1965 Polish

drama film written and directed by Tadeusz Konwicki. It was released on 11 June 1965 in Poland. The director of photography is Kurt Weber and the music is by Wojciech Kilar. The title can be translated as "somersault" in English, or it can be seen as a reference to a rhythmic dance movement. The film received an Honorary Diploma at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1967.^[1]

Plot

The film tells the story of a man who jumps off a train into a sparsely populated town. He is "a crazy guy who drops into a kind of ghost town and tells various cockamamie stories, and the citizens aren't sure if they remember him or not".[2] The crazy man "claims to have hidden in this town during the war", and he confronts a number of people, being "alternately hostile, tender, understanding, accusing, cowering, [and] passive-aggressive"; but the townspeople do not seem to remember him.^[3]

Style

The film is "mostly a lot of curious confrontations, both intellectual and earthy, conveyed in a fluid camera style with disorienting transitions".

Kafkaesque.^[6]

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski as Karol Kowalski vel Malinowski
Gustaw Holoubek as the Host
Marta Lipińska as Helena
Irena Laskowska as Cecylia
Wojciech Siemion as the Artist
Włodzimierz Boruński as Blumenfeld
Andrzej Łapicki as Pietuch
Jerzy Block in the role of the Old man
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz as Rotmistrz
Iga Cembrzyńska

Music

The score by Wojciech Kilar includes a "stately, delicate piano piece" during the opening credits. While there is "no background music during the film", the climax of the story depicts a town festival at which a "small band of piano, drums, double-bass, guitar, clarinet and trumpet" plays a "beautiful waltz" and the "title dance, the salto", which has a "driving rhythm".^[7]

External links

Salto at
IMDb

References

^ 100 Years of Polish Film. Available online at: "Salto". Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
^ "Film Score Daily Articles".
^ "Reality with a Pinch of Salto < Columns | PopMatters". www.popmatters.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-07.
^ "Film Score Daily Articles".
^ Henry Dasko. A note on Konwicki's filmmaking. [1]^{[dead link]}^{[ISBN missing]}
^ "Jump". LACMA. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
^ "Film Score Daily Articles".

[1] 100 Years of Polish Film. Available online at: "Salto". Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2010-09-25.

[2] "Film Score Daily Articles".

[3] "Reality with a Pinch of Salto < Columns | PopMatters". www.popmatters.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-07.

[4] "Film Score Daily Articles".

[5] Henry Dasko. A note on Konwicki's filmmaking. [1]^{[dead link]}^{[ISBN missing]}

[LACMA-6] "Jump". LACMA. Retrieved 4 June 2014.

[7] "Film Score Daily Articles".

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