The corpse of a well-known banker was found backstage at the Warsaw “Golden Bird” Cabaret in the dressing room of the Red Fool (Czerwony Błazen). The Red Fool himself often mocked on stage human stupidity, hypocrisy, arrogance and megalomania. He didn’t even spare state officials. The investigation revealed that the Red Fool and a certain young Polish diplomat are brothers. One of the brothers worked as a fool to earn money cover the extravagant expenses of the other. It also revealed that the cabaret stage manager committed the murder in an act of revenge.
Aneta Kozlowska/Renata Wasowska, Filmoteka Narodowa, 21.05.2009
script: Henryk Szaro
director of cinematography: Seweryn Steinwurzel, Gustaw Kryński, Leonard Zawisławski
starring: Robert Boelke (Józef Skarski, the Red Fool), Stefan Hnydziński (Witold Skarski), Oktawian Kaczanowski (baron Karol Mertinger), Helena Makowska (Halina, baron’s wife), Wanda Smosarska (Wanda Skarska), Lech Owron (Gliński, prosecutor), Stefan Szwarc (investigator), Aleksander Maniecki (theater director), Eugeniusz Bodo (stage manager), Nora Ney (Maria, stage manager’s wife), Aleksander Żabczyński (medic), Julian Krzewiński (doctor Reski), Adolf Dymsza, and others.
producer: Leo-Film
format: 35 mm
length: about 2800 meters; about 100 minutes
premiere screening: Oct. 10, 1926
Aneta Kozlowska/Renata Wasowska, Filmoteka Narodowa, 21.05.2009
