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During the German occupation of a small Polish town, Franciszek Kłos, a lowly local policeman, will stop at nothing to become a Volksdeutsche. Eager to prove his loyalty, he zealously carries out the occupiers' orders. What begins as administrative compliance soon escalates when he commits his first murder of a fellow Pole. Condemned to death by the Polish underground, Kłos outwardly shrugs off the sentence while quietly drowning his growing fear in alcohol. As his inhibitions crumble, he descends deeper into violence—participating in the roundup and execution of hidden Jews, and earning a reputation for brutality even among the SS.Read moreLess
During the German occupation of a small Polish town, Franciszek Kłos, a lowly local policeman, will stop at nothing to become a Volksdeutsche. Eager to prove his loyalty, he zealously carries out the occupiers' orders. What begins as administrative compliance soon escalates when he commits his first murder of a fellow Pole. Condemned to death by the Polish underground, Kłos outwardly shrugs off the sentence while quietly drowning his growing fear in alcohol. As his inhibitions crumble, he descends deeper into violence—participating in the roundup and execution of hidden Jews, and earning a reputation for brutality even among the SS.
The story
During the German occupation of a small Polish town, Franciszek Kłos, a lowly local policeman, will stop at nothing to become a Volksdeutsche. Eager to prove his loyalty, he zealously carries out the occupiers' orders. What begins as administrative compliance soon escalates when he commits his first murder of a fellow Pole. Condemned to death by the Polish underground, Kłos outwardly shrugs off the sentence while quietly drowning his growing fear in alcohol. As his inhibitions crumble, he descends deeper into violence—participating in the roundup and execution of hidden Jews, and earning a reputation for brutality even among the SS.
Cast & crew
Mirosław BakaFranciszek Kłos
Grażyna Błęcka-KolskaŻona Kłosa
Maja KomorowskaMatka Kłosa
Katarzyna BosackaTereska
Iwona BielskaSroczyna
Bartosz ObuchowiczMietek Sroka
Grzegorz MałeckiEdward Kapuściak
Marta BitnerWandzia
Krzysztof GlobiszRządek
Tadeusz WojtychKorkowski
Mieczysław GrąbkaChomińskiExplore the crew
- Director
- Andrzej Wajda
- Writer
- Zygmunt Malanowicz
- Writer
- Andrzej Wajda
- Producer
- Sławomir Rogowski