05-12-2009
Sławomir Sikora (a prototype of the hero of Krzysztof Krauze's film "The Debt") is released from prison for a three month break after serving ten of the twenty five years of imprisonment he has been sentenced to for double murder.
He uses this time to appeal for pardon. He is supported by the “Debt” Citizens Committee. In December 2005, after the document is finished, he is pardoned.
time : 20 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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