Neighbors (1937)

Original title

Piętro wyżej

Directed by

Leon Trystan

Genre

comedy film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two neighbors with the same last name are complete opposites. A young woman visits one of them but ends up in the other man's apartment. The man immediately falls for her, leading to comedic complications.

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What happens

Neighbors (Polish: Piętro wyżej) is a 1937 Polish musical romantic comedy film directed by Leon Trystan and starring Eugeniusz Bodo, Józef Orwid and Helena Grossówna. Its plot follows two neighbors who, although unrelated, happen to have the same last name (Henryk and Hipolit Pączek) and are complete opposites of each other. Complications arise when the niece of the older, Hipolit Pompek arrives for a visit and gets into Henryk's apartment who immediately falls for her. The film was awarded the main prize at the Polish Film Festival in Lviv in 1938. In September Piętro wyżej was dubbed into Yiddish and released in December of that year under the title Shkheynim in New York. Famous Polish-Jewish actor Menasze Oppenheim starred in the lead role. Neighbors is one of the most popular Polish pre-war films. Heavily inspired by pre-Code motion pictures, the film is noted for the first ever on-screen depiction of a drag queen in Polish cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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