The festival program on May 29 at 6:15 pm will include the screening of Andrzej Wajda's dramatic film "Everything for Sale" ("Wszystko na sprzedaż") in the Scandinavia House (60 Park Ave, New York).

Andrzej Wajda also acted as the screenwriter for this film.

As film critics note, "Everything for Sale" is a film about cinema, a kind of "8.5" by Andrzej Wajda, but filmed in a completely different, dry and sometimes close to documentary style. A film about cinema. No need to compare it with Fellini, another world, another style, other sounds, colors, thoughts, everything is different. This is a hymn, a requiem, and an apotheosis - not of the actor Cybulski, but of cinema as a whole.

The stars of Polish cinema actually play themselves in this film, and the director's alter ego becomes his namesake Andrzej Lapicki.

The film is dedicated to the memory of the untimely deceased Zbigniew Cybulski and looks like a passing of the baton from Cybulski to the new Polish actor No. 1 - Daniel Olbrychski.

Daniel (Daniel Olbrychski)

The plot of the film is built around the film crew. During filming, the actor playing the main role disappears. His wife and the director's wife, who also play in the film, set out to look for him. During the search, it turns out that he died after jumping from a moving train. The rest of the story is built on memories of this actor and the continuation of the filming of the film with another actor in the lead role.

On the set of the film "Everything for Sale"

In one of his interviews, Andrzej Wajda spoke about this film:

"A year ago, at the Rome airport, Zbyszek Cybulski reproached me: "Tell him, he'll miss me yet..." But I thought that he was owed something more from me than another role, of which he had had too many lately.

In other words: a film about Him. A film in which He would be himself. In the circle of events that He had witnessed or which I knew about from His stories.

And I began to think over the script. I will call it a scenario plan, however, because of a certain peculiarity of the idea: the actors are to appear before the audience with their own, personal baggage, intended for sale. One night, in London, I was persuading Mercer, a wonderful English playwright who was friends with Zbyszek, to write such a scenario. We laughed heartily and a lot, recalling various funny stories that Zbyszek loved to tell about himself. Then the phone rang in the hotel. We were discussing the future film, and He had been dead for twenty-four hours. Could I back down now? And I began to think about what happens when one of us, still young, sure that “the sentence is far from being carried out”, suddenly passes away, leaving a host of the living. The film should be about them, not about Him - but with Him in the leading role. I am not a writer. Only necessity compels me to describe in words the film I want to make. May these words not anger you - they will not be on the screen. Everything that happens in the film is fiction. Since time immemorial, I have accumulated a multitude of scenes, situations, characters that did not fit into previous films. The scriptwriters simply did not need them, and I was sorry to part with them. I gradually lost hope of seeing at least something from this reserve, but they patiently waited for their time. And now I am “selling” them all wholesale. They will become the plot basis of the film. It is not by chance that I called this text a “script plan” - what else should a script be if not a direction, a pointer for something that has yet to emerge? The scenes captured on paper will grow on their own - believe me, there is yeast in them. And there is space for the voices of those who knew Zbyszek. Why should I put my words in their mouths? As a result, the main character, whom we will not see on the screen, will come to life in the film. My project will take shape thanks to a collaboration with the author of the dialogues, which opens up new possibilities. There will be two or three of them - depending on how things go. But for now I don’t want to give them my script – for the same reasons that they protect their works from often unjustified co-authorship with directors. Their time will come when the film goes into production. Let no one be surprised that the characters in the film appear under their own names: what’s the point of being called fictional, if at this sale they will have to play themselves? Zbyszek’s name will not be heard even once, and his face will not appear on the screen even once, but nevertheless... He will play his role again, because I have missed him.” Paradoxically, life developed the theme of “everything for sale” to the plot of “The Show Must Go On”. Just as 10 years earlier, Andrzej Wajda’s film “Ashes and Diamonds” brought everything peaceful fame to Zbigniew Cybulski, and "Everything for Sale" made Daniel Olbrychski the leading actor in Poland and a world star for many, many years...

Beata (Beata Tyszkiewicz)

Andrzej (Andrzej Łapicki)

Elya (Elżbieta Czyżewska)

Witek (Witold Holz) and Andrzej (Andrzej Łapicki)

Beata (Beata Tyszkiewicz) and Malyshka (Małgorzata Potocka)