05-12-2009
The hero of the documentary is a quite old hippie, in his fifties, living with his wife and 8 children in a small village near Warsaw.
He is nicknamed „The Rebel”. His whole life, he has been writing a diary. „The Rebel” hasn’t been a typical hippie: he has never used drugs or alcohol, he hasn’t believed in „free love”, but he has believed in Love of Christ deeply. In 1976 he constructed a big cross and went for a pilgrimage to Częstochowa Sanctuary of Holy Mother. Militia stopped him near Radom. The film is a story of human choices and the costs of those choices. This is a story of an uncommon person, who has his doubts and dreams.
time : 26 min.
year : 2005
Beginning of 1945, Upper Silesia, Poland. The last days of WW2. At the just liberated areas, the Communist Security Service eliminates its enemies under the pretext of punishing “national traitors.” It organizes a labour camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, which is named “Zgoda” / “Reconciliation”. Franek, who is in love with a Polish prisoner Anna, joins the camp crew to rescue her. He doesn't know that one of the inmates is Erwin, his German friend, who, like himself, has also loved Anna for a long time. Franek joins Communists in the illusory hope of outsmarting the system.
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