Rewizja osobista

I watched "Rewizja osobista" (Personal inspection) in the late 1970s at a film symposium dedicated to recently deceased great personalities of cinema. In the case of "Personal inspection" it was the actor Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz who died in 1977. I remember that I was neither thrilled nor bored by this film. What stayed best in my memory were the striking performances by Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz and Zygmunt Hubner. "Personal inspection" is somewhat reminiscent of a TV theater play in style. The action takes place over several hours in a customs house somewhere in southern Poland in the early 1970s. At that time it was already known that the communist economy was not working and there was a shortage of many basic items in the shops. Many people went abroad, where they bought goods that were unavailable in Poland, and after smuggling them into the country, they sold them for profit. So "Personal inspection" is deeply rooted in the realities of the Polish People's Republic and may be difficult for some viewers to understand today. But we can also watch this film as a document of its times.