05-12-2009
The documentary was commissioned by a German Foundation from Munster. Ludwik Krasucki, Krystyna Budnicka, Marian Majerowicz and Leszek Żukowski told us their terrifying stories from their youth, which unfortunately fell on the times of the German occupation in Poland.
Young people from Polish and German high schools and colleges took part in the film. The documenatry is illustrated with archive materials and contemporary pictures of the Nazi concentration camps.
time : 35 min.
year : 2004
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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