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.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Director of Photography: Zygmunt Samosiuk
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Brzozowski
Tadeusz
Nina
Professor
Karol
Priest - Editor
Ensign
Tolek
Cygan