| Country / Region |
| Poland |
| Year | | | 1976 |
| Format | | | DCP |
| Color | | | Color |
| Length | | | 82 min |
| Rating | | | 6+ |
After his release from a three-year sentence in jail, Antoni Gralak realizes that there is no place for him in his family. He leaves his hometown of Krakow and finds work on a building site in Silesia, hoping to finally settle into a peaceful existence and start life anew. He finds and marries a girl, but things get complicated again when his boss tries to recruit him into underhanded dealings. A strike breaks out, and Gralak finds himself torn between his boss and fellow workers.
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Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996) is one of the great visionaries in cinema. The Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and the "Three Colours trilogy" earned Kieślowski his reputation as a world-class filmmaker. In a life disrupted by Hitler and Stalin and the legacy they left in Eastern Europe, his struggle to work as a filmmaker mirrors the struggle of Poland to reassert its identity. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall collapsed, his orientationgravitated towards France. Moving between Poland and France, Kieslowski created some of the most important cinematic works of the 1990s. |
