Two Poles, one impossible escape: when survival means outrunning your own army.
Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Acting
Herdegen's haunted eyes say everything the censors wouldn't.
Direction
Lesiewicz turns bureaucratic horror into slow-burn poetry.
Writing
Hen's autobiographical bite still stings six decades later.
Director
Witold Lesiewicz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the brief Polish thaw, it barely survived Communist censors who found its ambiguity 'ideologically suspicious.'
Józef Hen later became one of Poland's most celebrated screenwriters; this early rawness shocked even him.
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