
Andrzej Wajda
Director


In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
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Andrzej Wajda
Director

Hanna Schygulla
Paulina Kropp

Armin Mueller-Stahl
Mayer

Ralf Wolter
Schulze

Daniel Olbrychski
Wiktorczyk

Bernhard Wicki
Dr. Borg

Sigfrit Steiner
Melchior

Serge Merlin
Alker

Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Zinngruber the Mayor

Otto Sander
The narrator

Ben Becker
Klaus
Gernot Duda
Stackmann
Ilse Bahrs
Frau Schnittgens, old

Piotr Lysak
Stanislaus
Gérard Desarthe
Karl Wyler

Elisabeth Trissenaar
Elsbeth Schnittgens
Erika Wackernagel
Frau Melchior
Thomas Ringelmann
Herbert
Heidi Joschko
Frau Zinngruber
Boleslaw Michalek
Writer