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- The film is set in Silesia, a disputed piece of provincial real estate that has variably belonged to both Poland and Germany. This tragi-comic family saga opens in 1939. Ewald is called up to Polish army. Antek, his brother, stays et home, watching his beautiful sister-in-law with cow- eyed longing. Then, he decides to volunteer in Wehrmacht. However, Antek returns home in 1945 as NKVD officer. On the fateful night that the Soviet march into Poland he manages to consummate his lust, and Janek, a hunchback, is born. As Janek grows, the tensions between the boy and his father increase. The course of modern Poland, as it is shaped in those crucial years, parallels the familys changes, and the allegorical meaning of the film is brought into focus particularly through the chameleon-like transformations of the charismatic Antek, who becomes in succession, a priest, a German soldier and NKVD officer, a communist party official, an oppositionist, and finally a Western businessman.
- This is the story of a big city, great ambitions, faith, strength, struggle and adherence to principles.
- An action drama set in Leningrad blocked by Germans during World War II. The spectator is offered only one day with them, but the duration of this day can be compared to a small life. Death, blood, famine and cold are all that surround the people of this besieged city. However, they stand strong against the prevailing evil forces in hand-to-hand combat, and even when faced with death, they never lose their humanity and ability to feel and to love.
- The film tells about the "new Russians" who want to buy a cottage and find themselves in the house of a dead writer, whose family members meet the main characters in different ways