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{{Short description|1963 Polish film}}
{{expand Polish|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox film
| name =How to be Loved
| image =How to be loved poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Wojciech Has]]
| producer =
| writer = [[Kazimierz Brandys]]
| starring =[[Zbigniew Cybulski]]<br>[[Barbara Krafftówna]]
| cinematography = Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz
| music = Lucjan Kaszycki
| editing =
| distributor = Zespół Filmowy Kamera
| released = {{Film date|1963}}
| runtime = 97 minutes
| language = [[Polish language|Polish]]
| budget =
}}

'''''How to be Loved''''' ({{langx|pl|Jak być kochaną}}) is a 1963 [[cinema of Poland|Polish film]], directed by [[Wojciech Has]].

The film, based on a [[novel]] of the same name by [[Kazimierz Brandys]], examines the emotional casualties of war, which is perhaps the central theme of the [[Polish Film School]]. On a deeper level, the film manages to construct a personal tragedy that results from a struggle of egoism and cowardice versus devotion and courage. 

The film was entered into the [[1963 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3129/year/1963.html |title=Festival de Cannes: How to Be Loved |accessdate=2009-02-27|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

==Plot==
On a plane bound for [[Paris]], Felicja ([[Barbara Krafftówna]]), a successful radio actress, recalls the night in 1939 when she was to debut as [[Ophelia (character)|Ophelia]], with the man she loved, Wiktor ([[Zbigniew Cybulski]]), playing [[Hamlet]]. [[World War II]] intervenes, and Felicja takes a job as a waitress to avoid acting on a German stage, giving her lover sanctuary when he's accused of killing a collaborator. After the war, Wiktor can't get away fast enough, hot on the trail of fame and applause, and the woman who saved him is herself wrongly accused of collaboration. Years later, Wiktor and Felicja meet again, and the tables have turned.

==Cast==
* [[Barbara Krafftówna]] as Felicja
* [[Zbigniew Cybulski]] as Wiktor Rawicz
* [[Artur Młodnicki]] as Tomasz
* [[Wieńczysław Gliński]] as bacteriologist
* [[Wiesław Gołas]] as German soldier
* [[Wiesława Kwaśniewska]] as photographer
* [[Zdzisław Maklakiewicz]] as journalist Zenon
* [[Tadeusz Kalinowski]] - Peters
* [[Mirosława Krajewska]] as flight attendant

== See also ==
*[[Cinema of Poland]]
*[[List of Polish language films]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{imdb title|id=0057196|title=How To Be Loved}}

{{Wojciech Has}}

[[Category:1963 films]]
[[Category:Polish war films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Wojciech Has]]
[[Category:1960s Polish-language films]]
[[Category:Polish World War II films]]
[[Category:Polish black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1963 war films]]


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