Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison, returns to his wife, Jola, who lives in a lonely house. Here he finds a man who claims he has been hired for hard work. Kim wants to find out if Mietek is not Jola's lover.
La película cuenta la historia biográfica de Karol Wojtyla, comenzando en 1926 en Polonia: muestra la invasión nazi a ese país, y la vida de Wojtyla como sacerdote, obispo y cardenal, hasta que finalmente es nombrado papa con el nombre de Juan Pablo II.
Después de cincuenta años de exilio, un viejo y célebre director de orquesta decide regresar a su patria. Durante los ensayos tiene un enfrentamiento con el director local, hombre ambicioso y marido posesivo de una violinista, hija de la mujer de la que el exiliado estuvo enamorado en su juventud. El film presenta el enfrentamiento entre dos éticas, la del anciano enamorado del arte, y la del inescrupuloso advenedizo, capaz de utilizar cualquier medio para lograr sus fines. Entre ambos, la mujer que, inevitablemente reconoce la realidad, y actúa como desencadenante del conflicto.
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
A father searches for his son, who has been missing since WW II, in post-war Poland. In his quest for the truth about his son, the father is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
A father searches for his son, who has been missing since WW II, in post-war Poland. In his quest for the truth about his son, the father is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
