05-12-2009
Is it possible for your whole life – both personal and professional – to take second place behind television quiz shows? Until recently, Marek Krukowski would have answered - yes!
He has never worked, and supported the five members of his family entirely through his winnings from quiz shows. But suddenly that all changed. The producers no longer want Marek in the quiz programmes. It’s time for someone else to win…
time : 30 min.
year : 2002
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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