Rat Catcher

A multiple award-winning film about a man who destroys rats on an industrial scale. The title "rat catcher" presents his working methods in details. They must be carefully devised, because rats are highly intelligent animals and "it is not easy to win with them". The film is an ambiguous and perverse work: it was made shortly after the end of martial law in Poland and at the time was clearly interpreted as a mischievous metaphor of the recent hunt by the communist security services for leaders of the opposition underground. The film's expressive cinematography was chiefly directed by the late Piotr Sobociński, one of Poland's most successful cinematographers in the United States, who at the beginning of his career often worked with the Educational Films Studio.