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Bad Luck (1960)

Bad Luck poster
Original title
Zezowate szczęście
Directed by
Andrzej Munk
Genre
comedy film, black comedy film
Country
Poland
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
12
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A hapless man named Jan Piszczyk lurches through life in pre-war and post-war Poland. His schemes to find success keep backfiring in absurd and unlucky ways.

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What happens

Bad Luck (Polish: Zezowate szczęście) is a 1960 Polish black comedy film directed by Andrzej Munk. The screenplay is based on Jerzy Stawiński’s novel Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk (1959). Bad Luck was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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