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Burial of a Potato (1990)

Burial of a Potato (1990)

Drama
Release Date: 1990, January 1
Directors: Jan Jakub Kolski
Cast: Adam Ferency, Henryk Niebudek, Mariusz Saniternik, Jan Jankowski, Franciszek Pieczka, Feliks Szajnert, Grzegorz Heromiński, Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Ryszard Mróz, Eugeniusz Korczarowski, Krystyna Feldman, Lech Gwit

Overview:

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.