리자(알렉산드라 슬라스카 분)는 아우슈비츠에서 SS감독관으로 있었던 자신의 과거에 대해 두 가지 다른 회상을 들려준다. 첫 번째 회상은 전쟁이 끝난 수 독일로 돌아가는 화려한 쾌속선에서 남편에게 들려주는 불온한 부분을 삭제한 버전이다. 그녀는 서로 사랑하는 사이인 남녀 수감자가 만날 수 있게 호의를 베풀었지만 그 이상 그들의 운명에 관여할 힘은 없었다고 말한다. 리자가 혼자 회상하는 두 번째 버전에서는 그녀의 동기가 좀더 복잡하고 모호하며 여자 수감자에 대한 집착적 관계가 드러난다.
Piasecki, naczelnik brygady politycznej w WUŚ w Wilnie
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
As directed by Aleksander Ford in 1952, this Polish-language period drama chronicles the life, times and accomplishments of revered Warsaw-born Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, here played by Czeslaw Wollejko (Danton). The feature focuses exclusively on the youth of Chopin (who died at age 39), spanning his 15th year (c. 1825) through his 21st year (c. 1831); it also depicts Chopin as both prodigiously gifted and one filled with a tremendous spirit of Polish nationalism. Ford concludes with the onset of the illness that eventually killed Ford, set against the backdrop of the famous November Uprising in 1830.
In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be tough as the place is closely guarded by the Nazis. But despite a denunciation from a traitor and several violent deaths, they get going and the operation is a success. But the Red Army is approaching and now the coal production must not be sabotaged anymore. On the contrary, the partisans must prevent the Germans from destroying the steel mill and the coal mine...
