05-12-2009
Gilles Renard came from France to Poland 16 years ago.
Now he decided to go back and visit old places, find old friends. He begins his sentimental journey by paying a visit to P{ierre Etaix, an eminent French film director who has not been able to make a film for many years. It is him who talked Gilles into going to Poland. Gilles also visits other friends and plays a game of chess with one of them.
time : 28 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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