Overview

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

Genres

Cast

Lambert Wilson

Alek

Hanna Schygulla

Stephania

Julie Delpy

Fryda

Piotr Cieślak

Vicaire

Paweł Nowisz

Sacristain

Leon Niemczyk

Officier

Krzysztof Zaleski

Gestapowiecz

Tomasz Jarosz

Zolnierska niemiecki

Marek Kasprzyk

Zolnierz niemiecki