The Weather Forecast

– The setting is an old age home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening m..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 26 Minutes
Release Year:
1983
Original Name:
Prognoza pogody
The Weather Forecast (1983) - Also known as Prognoza pogody

The setting is an old age home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening many of the residents huddle in a living room, penetrated by the October cold, to listen to the news. The announcement is giving the number of expected deaths due too the coming harsh winter. In the middle of the night a truckload of coffins arrives to be stored. Dicovering the coffins the elderly assume they are marked for liquidation and they flee en masse. The next day their exodus is dicovered and the director calls the authorities. It turned out that the coffins were the overproduction from a coffin factory and were brought only for temporary storage. The panic search for the pensioners begins, including helicopters. In the meantime the group gets transported to another part of the country by a truck. They take over by a near-empty restaurant, where after mistreatment by a waiter, they tie him up and move on. A lone fisherman invites them into his house where, after initial ...

Producing Country:
Genre:
Release Date:

14 Nov 1983

Language:

Polish

Director:

Antoni Krauze

Writer:

Antoni Krauze, Marek Nowakowski (story)

Main Actors:

Halina Buyno-Loza, Zofia Cegielkowa, Barbara Chojecka, Eugenia Horecka

Plot:

The setting is an old age home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening many of the residents huddle in a living room, penetrated by the October cold, to listen to the news. The announcement is giving the number of expected deaths due too the coming harsh winter. In the middle of the night a truckload of coffins arrives to be stored. Dicovering the coffins the elderly assume they are marked for liquidation and they flee en masse. The next day their exodus is dicovered and the director calls the authorities. It turned out that the coffins were the overproduction from a coffin factory and were brought only for temporary storage. The panic search for the pensioners begins, including helicopters. In the meantime the group gets transported to another part of the country by a truck. They take over by a near-empty restaurant, where after mistreatment by a waiter, they tie him up and move on. A lone fisherman invites them into his house where, after initial differences of opinion, they fraternize with a group of hippies. That is where the police corners them up.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10