Sexmission
Sexmission is a 1984 Polish politically satirical cult comedy science fiction action film. It was directed by Juliusz Machulski based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Jolanta Hartwig and Pavel Hajný. Sexmission has earned the title of a cult film over time, although due to the film's association of women's emancipation with the communist dictatorship of the era of the Polish People's Republic, it was the subject of feminist criticism.
Plot
In 1991, Maksymilian "Max" Paradys and Albert Starski volunteer themselves for the first human hibernation experiment, created by professor Wiktor Kuppelweiser. Instead of being awakened 3 years later in 1994 as planned, they wake in the year 2044, in a post-nuclear world. They think they are in a clinic being taken care of by women; Max becomes attracted to Lamia Reno. After asking for professor Kuppelweiser, they are informed that he "doesn't exist", and that there was a war long ago and that males have long been extinct. The men are under constant surveillance; Lamia informs them their society reproduces without males through parthenogenesis. During a briefing, Max kisses Lamia, for which she knocks him down and threatens both men with euthanasia. However, the kiss causes Lamia's drug-inhibited passions to resurface. She finds the oldest living woman Julia Novack, who tells Lamia that the old world with two sexes should be restored.
Cast
- Alicja Zommer
- Anna Wesołowska-Piechocińska
- Barbara Ludwiżanka
- Beata Maj-Dobal
- Beata Tyszkiewicz
- Boguslawa Pawelec
- Bozena Stryjkówna
- Dorota Stalińska
- Elżbieta Jasińska
- Elżbieta Zającówna
- Ewa Szykulska
- Grażyna Trela
- Hanna Bieluszko
- Hanna Bieniuszewicz
- Hanna Mikuć
- Hanna Stankówna
- Janusz Michałowski
- Jerzy Stuhr
- Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski
- Karina Szafrańska
- Lidia Bogaczówna
- Magdalena Kuta
- Magdalena Scholl
- Małgorzata Rogacka-Wiśniewska
- Mirosława Marcheluk
- Olgierd Łukaszewicz
- Piotr Stefaniak
- Ryszarda Hanin
- Teresa Makarska
- Wiesław Michnikowski
- Zofia Gienieczko