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The Real End of the Great War (1957)

The Real End of the Great War (1957)

Drama
Release Date: 1957, October 10
Directors: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Countries: Poland
Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Cast: Janina Jabłonowska, Maciej Maciejewski, Ryszard Ronczewski, Hanna Stankówna, Leonard Pietraszak, Andrzej Kopiczyński, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Eugeniusz Kamiński, Mariusz Gorczyński, Maria Wachowiak, Andrzej Szalawski, Olga Bielska

Overview:

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion

Keywords:

holocaust (shoah) survivor