Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Direction
Barański's patient observation of ordinary tragedy
Production
Painstaking 1930s period detail throughout
Director
Andrzej Barański
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barański shot this during Poland's post-communist transition, making its pre-war nostalgia politically charged.
Artur Barciś later became famous as the mysterious silent man in Kieslowski's Dekalog series.
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