Synopsis
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
49 audience votes
Key crew
- Borys LankoszDirector
- Abel KorzeniowskiOriginal Music Composer
- Borys LankoszScreenplay
- Zygmunt MiłoszewskiScreenplay
Cast
- Robert WięckiewiczTeodor Szacki
- Jerzy TrelaLeon Wilczur
- Magdalena WalachBarbara Sobieraj
- Aleksandra HamkałoKlara
- Krzysztof PieczyńskiGrzegorz Budnik
- Andrzej ZielińskiJerzy Szyller
- Modest RucińskiRoman Myszyński
- Zohar ShtraussRabin Zygmunt
- Iwona BielskaMaria Miszczyk
- Philip LenkowskyMężczyzna w katedrze
- Arkadiusz JakubikJanek Wiewiórski
- Lech DyblikGąsiorowski
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Themes
based on novel or book