Movielogr
The Shadow-Line (1976)
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Overview
Andrzej Wajda’s English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate’s fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Marek Kondrat | Graham Lines | Tom Wilkinson | Bernard Archard | John Bennett | Martin Wyldeck | Richard Bartlett | Piotr Cieślak | Zygmunt Hübner | Eugeniusz Priwieziencew | Gordon Richardson | Stanisław Tym | Jerzy Zelnik | Marian Czyżewski | Stefan Friedmann | Piotr Garlicki | Tadeusz Jastrzębowski | Krzysztof Kumor | Zygmunt Maciejewski | Tomasz Mościcki | Adam Perzyk | Radosław Piwowarski | Igor Sawin | Maciej Staniewicz | Malgorzata Braunek | Iga Cembrzyńska | Bożena Dykiel | Irena Karel | Emilia Krakowska | Jolanta Lothe | Wojciech Pszoniak | Joanna Żółkowska