10% for Me
About 10% for Me
Janek (Tadeusz Wesołowski), a poor notary's clerk, loves Zosia Grzybek (Tola Mankiewiczówna) from the small town of Budy. Her parents are against him. When the Grzybeks inherit money from America they take Zosia to Warsaw to enter society and stop at the Palace Hotel. Janek follows. He meets Lopek (Kazimierz Krukowski), a man about the salons who takes ten percent of every deal he joins. With Lopek's help Janek gets the parents to accept him. The Polish title is Dziesięć procent dla mnie.
Cast & crew
More about 10% for Me
Juliusz Gardan directed the Leo-Film comedy. Bolesław Land wrote it. Seweryn Steinwurzel photographed it. Stefan Norris designed the sets. Adam Rapacki wrote the music. It opened on 7 January 1933 and runs 88 minutes. Władysław Walter plays Walery Grzybek and Janina Janecka plays his wife.
Themes
Background
Released in January 1933, in the Depression, as a Polish comedy about a sudden American inheritance and a Warsaw hotel.
Making
Leo-Film built the Palace Hotel world on Norris's sets and sent a small-town family into it. Steinwurzel shot the comedy.
Look
Seweryn Steinwurzel photographed the Warsaw hotel scenes and the small-town opening.
Music
Adam Rapacki wrote the music.
Notes
- Lopek's fee is the title: ten percent of whatever scheme he joins.
- The inheritance that moves the family is American money.
- Tadeusz Fijewski plays a hotel page. Józef Orwid plays a notary.
- Polish Wikipedia notes that the film was made during the Depression and that the story refers to it.
- The English title is also given as Ten Percent for Me.
Scenes
- The Grzybeks check into the Palace Hotel with the American money.
- Lopek names his price, ten percent, and steers Janek toward the parents' consent.
