For a brief moment before his tragic death in 1961, Andrzej Munk was the yin to Andrzej Wajda’s yang in Polish cinema. <Bad Luck> is exactly the opposite of Wajda‘s romantic and poetic approach to Polish history. Munk presented World War II here as an arena of chaotic, senseless happenings where the protagonist was not a hero but a tragicomic coward suffering from the discrepancy between his ambitions and his abilities. Formally the film was designed as a summary of cinema history with various historical and modern techniques used for subsequent films.<Bad Luck> remains an ironic review of national Polish character ? one of the best in Polish cinema‘s history. (Michał CHACI?SKI)