Banned for 11 years by communists for being too honest about post-war Poland.
Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Acting
Female ensemble carries the entire emotional weight.
Direction
Two directors, one claustrophobic apartment, zero escape.
Director
Stanisław Wohl
Irena Krasnowiecka
Ira
Wanda Łuczycka
Marta
Hanna Skarżanka
Teresa
Danuta Szaflarska
Weronika
Jerzy Duszyński
Marek
Władysław Hańcza
Filip
Władysław Grabowski
Kaliciński
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Kuba
Mieczysław Milecki
Doctor Brus (credited as Mieczysław Milewski)
Jacek Woszczerowicz
Leon
Józef Węgrzyn
"Master Amadeusz Ordoni"
Aleksander Zelwerowicz
Old man
Hanka Bielicka
Marta's neighbour (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Poland's 'Black Series'—films so honest about post-war poverty that communist censors buried them.
Shot in 1946 but shelved until Gomułka's 1956 political thaw; even then, released in censored form.
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