People with No Tomorrow

Alfred Runicz, the master of the hussars, is engaged to the daughter of Paweł Lenin, the president of the city theatres in Warsaw. For the new premiere, the president involves Lola Wirska, a famous artist, a beautiful woman who is famous for numerous romances. The current theater star, Helena Horska, does not agree to play a supporting role and warns her colleagues against the intrigues of the competitor. Men do nothing to warn themselves, not knowing that doom awaits them.

People Without Tomorrow is one of the early Polish silent films and at the same time a sensational discovery in the German Bundesarchiv. The film, which was made in 1919, entered the screens of cinemas after many corrections only in 1921. Until recently, he was considered missing, found in the archives of Kamil Stepan and Jerzy Maśnicki. Józef Węrzyn, one of the most interesting Polish actors of the first half of the 20th century, played the role of the captain, while Lola Wirska was played by Halina Bruczówna, a star of theatre and film, for whom it was the last film creation in the domestic cinema before leaving for the United States. People without tomorrow is the only production with the participation of Halina Bruczówna, which has survived to our times.

Live music | live music: Shame!

Screening as part of the 27th Silent Film Festival.

Previously as part of: Festival postscript of the 16th Silent Film Festival - premiere after years and Demonstration of live photographs using Cinematograph - 120 years later, FFN guest at the VI Retro Picnic of the Old Rabka Czar.