The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
Acting
Ludwik Benoit's Stangret — sympathetic everyman or party puppet? You decide.
Direction
Kawalerowicz before he became Kawalerowicz — propaganda with actual craft.
Director
Kazimierz Sumerski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the height of Stalinist influence in Polish cinema, when directors were essentially assigned propaganda projects. Kawalerowicz would later disown this phase before creating masterpieces like 'Mother Joan of the Angels.'
The kulak villain Zieliński was played by Mieczysław Pawlikowski, who'd later become beloved in Polish comedy — audiences now find his early 'class enemy' roles deeply surreal.
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