Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Directing | Andrzej Wajda | Director |
Sound | Zygmunt Konieczny | Original Music Composer |
Camera | Zygmunt Samosiuk | Director of Photography |
Editing | Halina Prugar-Ketling | Editor |
Art | Jerzy Szeski | Production Design |
Art | Leonard Mokicz | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Jerzy Szeski | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Renata Wlasow | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Ber | Makeup Artist |
Sound | Wiesława Dembińska | Sound |
Writing | Andrzej Brzozowski | Writer |
Writing | Andrzej Wajda | Writer |
Writing | Tadeusz Borowski | Short Story |
Directing | Jan Budkiewicz | First Assistant Director |
Production | Barbara Pec-Ślesicka | Production Supervisor |
Directing | Krystyna Grochowicz | Assistant Director |
Directing | Jerzy Obłamski | Assistant Director |
Camera | Jacek Stachlewski | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Franciszek Łokaj | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Eugeniusz Maciaszek | Assistant Camera |
Art | Zdzisław Roliński | Art Direction |
Art | Wacław Jesionowski | Art Direction |
Art | Wojciech Filipowicz | Assistant Set Decoration |
Sound | Kazimierz Kucharski | Sound Assistant |
Editing | Irena Jasińska | Assistant Editor |
Costume & Make-Up | Irena Czerwińska | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Camera | Renata Pajchel | Still Photographer |
Production | Janina Krassowska | Production Assistant |
Production | Wiesława Borecka | Production Assistant |
Production | Zbigniew Ronert | Production Assistant |
Production | Janusz Szela | Production Assistant |