Overview

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.

Top 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