Chance Meeting on the Atlantic
1980, Polish. Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Polish
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Cast & crew
- Jerzy KawalerowiczDirector
- Teresa Budzisz-KrzyżanowskaMagda
- Ignacy GogolewskiNowak
- Marek WalczewskiWalter
- Małgorzata Wiśniewska-NiemirskaIrena
- Feliks ParnellMr. Józef
- Marek LewandowskiZbyszek
- Wacław UlewiczPriest
- Jerzy BraszkaSteward
- Gustaw LutkiewiczChief Steward
- Wiesława KosmalskaPassenger (uncredited)
- Zygmunt MaciejewskiCaptain (uncredited)
- Stanisław MichalskiPassenger (uncredited)
Details
- Released
- 11 September 1980
- Original title
- Spotkanie na Atlantyku
- Country
- Poland
- Written by
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Bolesław Michałek
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Chance Meeting on the Atlantic runs 105 minutes (1h 45m).
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Chance Meeting on the Atlantic isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 11 September 1980. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Chance Meeting on the Atlantic?
Chance Meeting on the Atlantic (1980) was directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and stars Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Ignacy Gogolewski, Marek Walczewski.