The Shadow-Line
100 mins
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Graham Lines
Burns
Richard Bartlett
Doctor
Zygmunt Hübner
Capt. Vidara (as Zygmunt Hubner)
Gordon Richardson
Doctor
Iga Cembrzyńska
Double Bass Player (uncredited)
Zorika Zarzycka
First Assistant Director
Krystyna Grochowicz
Assistant Director
Magdalena Stelmaszczyk
Assistant Director
Michael Darlow
Assistant Director
Bolesław Sulik
Writer
Jolyon Wimhurst
Producer
Lech Brański
Original Music Composer
David Naden
Editor
