Coloured Stockings (1960) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1960 · 65 mins · Polish

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Directed by

Janusz Nasfeter

Starring

Gustaw Holoubek, Jan Machulski, Marian Łącz, Włodzimierz Nowak, Andrzej Mrozek, Stanisław Milski

The film is divided into two linked stories. In the first, Matilda longs for stylish stockings she cannot afford; when she appears at school wearing hand‑sewn ones made by her grandmother, she becomes the object of mockery, leading her to take a drastic step. The second follows Jadźka, also ridiculed at school, whose fear of humiliation drives her to increasingly skip classes and retreat into an intense, autistic‑like inner fantasy world.