

A deserter washes ashore. Three families must decide: mercy or betrayal?
The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.
Direction
Jakubowska's patient, unflinching gaze at human cruelty.
Acting
Damięcki's slow-burn unraveling as Bernard.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like people actually thinking out loud.

Director
Wanda Jakubowska
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jakubowska survived Auschwitz; this was her first post-war film, transferring Holocaust trauma onto another colonial violence.
Damian Damięcki was blacklisted in Poland shortly after; this performance was nearly his last.
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