
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.
Directed by Jan Jakub Kolski
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Cast

Franciszek Pieczka
Mateusz Szewczyk

Adam Ferency
Stefan Gorzelak

Mariusz Saniternik
Pasiasia

Ewa Żukowska
Mierzwowa

Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska
Dziedziczka Lachowiczowa

Bogusław Sochnacki
Mazurek

Grzegorz Heromiński
Wladzio Rzepecki

Feliks Szajnert
Antoni Andrzejewski

Katarzyna Łaniewska
Mazurkowa

Irena Burawska
Kusidelka

Henryk Niebudek
Kapitan

Andrzej Jurczak
Mierzwa

Krystyna Feldman
Matka Gorzelaka
Joanna Jankowska-Hussakowska
Hanka
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