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Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.Read moreLess
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
The story
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Cast & crew
Franciszek PieczkaMateusz Szewczyk
Adam FerencyStefan Gorzelak
Mariusz SaniternikPasiasia
Ewa ŻukowskaMierzwowa
Grażyna Błęcka-KolskaDziedziczka Lachowiczowa
Bogusław SochnackiMazurek
Grzegorz HeromińskiWladzio Rzepecki
Feliks SzajnertAntoni Andrzejewski
Katarzyna ŁaniewskaMazurkowa
Irena BurawskaKusidelka
Henryk NiebudekKapitan
Andrzej JurczakMierzwaExplore the crew
- Director
- Jan Jakub Kolski
- Original Music Composer
- Zygmunt Konieczny
- Director of Photography
- Wojciech Todorow
- Editor
- Ewa Pakulska
- Writer
- Jan Jakub Kolski