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.
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
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Cast
Daniel Olbrychski
Tadeusz
Stanisława Celińska
Nina
Aleksander Bardini
Professor
Tadeusz Janczar
Karol
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Priest - Editor
Mieczysław Stoor
Ensign
Leszek Drogosz
Tolek
Stefan Friedmann
Cygan
Jerzy Obłamski
Prisoner
Jerzy Zelnik
American Commander
Małgorzata Braunek
German Woman on Bicycle
Anna German
American
Agnieszka Fitkau
Nina's Friend
Alina Szpak
German in Barracks
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