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During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.Read moreLess
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.
The story
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.
Cast & crew
Beata FudalejIrena Lilien
Wojciech MalajkatJan Malecki
Magdalena WarzechaAnna Malecka
Jakub PrzebindowskiJulek Malecki
Bożena DykielPiotrowska
Cezary PazuraJózef Piotrowski
Wojciech PszoniakCouncilman Zamojski
Agnieszka KotulankaKarska
Artur BarciśZaleski
Krzysztof StroińskiOsipowicz
Michał PawlickiIrena's Father
Maria SewerynMs. MartaExplore the crew
- Director
- Andrzej Wajda
- Director of Photography
- Wit Dąbal
- Producer
- Lew Rywin
- Editor
- Wanda Zeman
- Screenplay
- Andrzej Wajda