I haven't heard about this film before, until I found it by accident on theme TV channel. It is probably difficult to find nowadays, though, especially outside of Poland. I started watching, and it happened to be a decent, intriguing, old-fashioned Hercules Poirot-style crime story, with an art robbery, that turned to a mysterious murder.
The action takes place in an old palace museum, far from inhabited places, and it takes one evening and a fateful night. A duo of police officers under cover of a married couple (with wedding rings borrowed from victims' possession deposit) travel to the museum, to prevent planned theft of an old king's portrait. Surprisingly, they have to face a murder with a medieval weapon, ghost stories, and a mystery of copies of the painting. One of workers or guests must be a killer, and the duo, not specializing in murders at all, has to investigate the matter, until dawn.
There are several Polish top actors of the period, including handsome police officer Andrzej Lapicki, and a femme fatale Kalina Jedrusik, in an appropriate role. Black and white cinematography and disturbing, carefully arranged music, help the feeling of mystery.
The action takes place in an old palace museum, far from inhabited places, and it takes one evening and a fateful night. A duo of police officers under cover of a married couple (with wedding rings borrowed from victims' possession deposit) travel to the museum, to prevent planned theft of an old king's portrait. Surprisingly, they have to face a murder with a medieval weapon, ghost stories, and a mystery of copies of the painting. One of workers or guests must be a killer, and the duo, not specializing in murders at all, has to investigate the matter, until dawn.
There are several Polish top actors of the period, including handsome police officer Andrzej Lapicki, and a femme fatale Kalina Jedrusik, in an appropriate role. Black and white cinematography and disturbing, carefully arranged music, help the feeling of mystery.