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Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsionRead moreLess
Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
The story
Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
Cast & crew
Lucyna WinnickaRóża Zborska
Roland GłowackiJuliusz
Andrzej SzalawskiProfessor Stęgień
Olga BielskaIrena
Helena DąbrowskaFlower Seller
Janina JabłonowskaPsychiatrist's Wife
Edward GlińskiSzymek
Kazimierz DębowskiPsychiatrist Ludwik
Zdzisław LeśniakMan leading a Wedding Procession
Gustaw LutkiewiczHenryk Thiel
Maciej MaciejewskiForemanExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Screenplay
- Jerzy Zawieyski
- Director
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Editor
- Wiesława Otocka
- Director of Photography
- Jerzy Lipman
- Original Music Composer
- Adam Walaciński