Day of the Wacko

Day of the Wacko (Dzień świra, 2002) is a Polish comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Marek Koterski with Marek Kondrat as the lead. Adam Miauczynski is 49, teaches Polish literature, and by every measure his life has quietly collapsed around him.

His wife left and took the son with her. The students at school don't bother pretending to care. Neighbours drop in uninvited. He fills the void with rigid personal rituals and fading memories of a youth that turned out wrong — and across the film's 93 minutes, he is trying to finish one genuinely terrible poem. Koterski shoots a portrait of creeping emptiness and somehow makes it both funny and sad without a single wasted scene. Watch Day of the Wacko (2002) online on iFILM.