05-12-2009
Six films made for the programme "Pepper and Vanilla" by Elżbieta Dzikowska, the Polish explorer and Tony Halik.
For 30 years she has studied the secrets of the Maya’s ancient civilisation. The pre-Columbian past and its presence in today’s beliefs and habits of people living in south Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Salvador. The most important monuments, works of art, meetings with experts, the latest discoveries.
time : 120 min.
year : 2000
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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