Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Mateusz Szewczyk
Stefan Gorzelak
Pasiasia
Mierzwowa
Dziedziczka Lachowiczowa
Mazurek
Wladzio Rzepecki
Antoni Andrzejewski
Mazurkowa
Kusidelka
Kapitan
Mierzwa
Matka Gorzelaka
Jurek Szewczyk, Mateusz's son
Geometra Franus
Tadek Mazurek
Andrzejewska
Pomocnik Geometry
Soltys
Fotograf
Director
Writer