| Summary: | Duration: 01:41:00
The screenplay is based on concentration camp novels by Tadeusz Borowski’. The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to find a way to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities. When the girl is accidentally killed by an American guard, he cries for the first time and then decides to return home with the books he has picked up. This film initiated a series of adaptations of classical Polish literature made in the 1970s where the director pays more heed to the psychology of the characters than to the political and historical context.
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