The Leap

Poland1978animated5'Retrospektywa Daniela Szczechury (2017)

The film is a remake of Ryszard Czekała’s study with real actors, An Accident (1971). In the morning, in the cold interior of a flat in a block of flats, the character gets up, performs meticulously his morning toilet, eats breakfast, reads a newspaper, gets dressed, checks his tie, looks at his watch and it is 7:50 AM. He should soon go to work. He is in a hurry not to be late. And then, suddenly, instead of the door, he moves towards the window. He jumps out of it. Silver Medal in Barcelona (1978).