Synopsis
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
22 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrzej WajdaDirector
- Zygmunt KoniecznyOriginal Music Composer
- Andrzej BrzozowskiScreenplay
- Andrzej WajdaScreenplay
Cast
- Daniel OlbrychskiTadeusz
- Stanisława CelińskaNina
- Aleksander BardiniProfessor
- Tadeusz JanczarKarol
- Zygmunt MalanowiczPriest - Editor
- Mieczysław StoorEnsign
- Leszek DrogoszTolek
- Stefan FriedmannCygan
- Jerzy ObłamskiPrisoner
- Jerzy ZelnikAmerican Commander
- Małgorzata BraunekGerman Woman on Bicycle
- Anna GermanAmerican