Rebel movies were controversial in a Communist country that denied the existence of juvenile delinquency. End of the Night, which has its West Coast premiere in this exhibition, is a Lodz feature collaboration about young hoodlums who commit crimes out of boredom-a kind of Polish Mean Streets. It was considered shocking at the time for its violence and its cool disdain of authority. Zbigniew Cybulski (Ashes and Diamonds) conveys a sense of world-weary despair as a loner who consorts with the gang. Older but none the wiser, he plays Keitel to Roman Polanski's De Niro, a hotheaded mook who clamors for acceptance from the gang. The ambitious use of flashbacks throughout conveys the sense of doom that surrounds these young drifters; as the film opens, the boys are already in police custody and snitching on one another. The film also dares to touch on themes of teenage sex, abortion, drinking, larceny, and cold-blooded violence.