Droll farce about competing neighbors. Wajda keeps this a filmed play, asides to the audience and all. (Apparantly this 19th Century play is, to quote “To Be Or Not To Be,” world famous in Poland.) Roman Polanski portrays a hilariously impish coward playing both sides, reminding us that he really should act more. Severely hot Katarzyna Figura (age 40 during production) plays the buxom widow of everyone’s fancy. Alas, there may be one too many reversals of fortune and surprising reveals in the last half hour of this film. Still, funny.