Sexmission

Seksmisja

Two men participate in a cryogenetics experiment, consenting to remain frozen for three years. They wake up fifty years later, in an era where persons of male sex have become extinct. As living relics of the past, they become subjects for study and targets of a long-forgotten lust. Faced with a sex-change operation threat, they unveil the obscure plot behind society’s grotesque transformation. A cult pastiche of sci-fi conventions voted among the most popular Polish movies of all times, that pitilessly lampoons totalitarianism.

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Direction: Juliusz Machulski

Script: Juliusz Machulski

Cinematography: Jerzy Łukaszewicz

Editing: Miroslawa Garlicka

Sound: Marek Wronko

Music: Henryk Kuzniak

Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Bożena Stryjkówna, Bogusława Pawelec, Wiesław Mikuć

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Producers: Andrzej Sołtysik

Sets: Wojciech Saloni-Marczewski

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Poland

Production Year: 1983

Duration: 121'

Contact: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

Awards/Distinctions: Best Scenography, Award of National Distribution Company, Golden Talar Award – Gdańsk Polish FF 1984 Best Polish Film, Polish Comedy of the Century – Golden Duck 1985

Juliusz Machulski

Juliusz Machulski studied Polish Literature and went on to graduate from the prestigious National Film School in Łódź. His debut film, Vabank, was a huge success, while his sophomore feature, Sexmission, was one of the most popular movies of the mid-80s not only in Poland, but in all countries of the Eastern Bloc. His third film, King Size, was regarded as one the best anti-regime satire films ever to be made in Communist Poland.