---
title: 'Hands Up! (1981)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jerzy Skolimowski'
released: '1981-10-01'
runtime_minutes: 76
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Poland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hands-up-1981'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062181/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hands Up! (1981)

1981 · 76 min · Drama · Poland

Original title: Ręce do góry

## Synopsis

Hands Up! is a Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is the third of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski himself plays his alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc. Originally filmed in 1967, Hands Up! was banned at the time in communist Poland because it critiqued Nazism in Poland, the Stalinist past in post-World War II Poland, and the socio-political climate in sixties Poland. The communist authorities not only banned the film, but also effectively sent Skolimowski into a lengthy exile.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jerzy Skolimowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-skolimowski)
- **Screenplay:** [Jerzy Skolimowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-skolimowski), [Andrzej Kostenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrzej-kostenko)
- **Director of Photography:** [Andrzej Kostenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrzej-kostenko), [Witold Sobociński](https://cinepixo.com/people/witold-sobocinski)

## Cast

- [David Essex](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-essex)
- [Tadeusz Łomnicki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tadeusz-omnicki)
- [Margarethe von Trotta](https://cinepixo.com/people/margarethe-von-trotta)
- [Mike Sarne](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-sarne)
- [Bogumił Kobiela](https://cinepixo.com/people/bogumi-kobiela)
- [Jane Asher](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-asher)
- [Fred Zinnemann](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-zinnemann)
- [Bruno Ganz](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-ganz)
- [Alan Bates](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-bates)
- [Volker Schlöndorff](https://cinepixo.com/people/volker-schlondorff)
- [Adam Hanuszkiewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/adam-hanuszkiewicz)
- [Jerzy Skolimowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-skolimowski)

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