Overview

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.

Genres

Cast

Maja Komorowska

Aunt Ida Dobrowolska

Bartosz Obuchowicz

Hubert

Piotr Adamczyk

Ksawery

Piotr Szwedes

Dominik

Stanisława Celińska

Justyna Winewar

Andrzej Szenajch

Rotmistrz

Agnieszka Warchulska

Headmaster