Pierwszy dzien wolnosci

original title:
Pierwszy dzien wolnosci
other titles:
The First Day of Freedom, (Der erste Tag der Freiheit)
country / year of production:
Poland / 1964
original length:
89 min. , black/white
premiere:
21 December 1964
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Leon Kruczkowski. Pierwszy dzien wolnosci. Sztuka w 3 aktach. Warszawa: Pa´nstw. Inst. Wydawn, 1960.
director:
Aleksander Ford
film script:
Bohdan Czeszko , Leon Kruczkowski
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composer:
cast (role):
Tadeusz Lomnicki , Beata Tyszkiewicz , Tadeusz Fijewski
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place in 1945 in a deserted German village and deals with Polish soldiers, who have been freed from war prisons. In the ghost town they meet a doctor and his daughters, who have been left behind. When they meet the border between winner and defeated becomes blurred.
keywords:
prisoners of war , escape , doctors in war , youth during wartime , children , returning soldiers
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Pavel Polian: Deportiert nach Hause: Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene im "Dritten Reich". München: Oldenbourg, 2001. ISBN: 3-486-56535-4
remarks:
Was nominated for the "Golden Palm" at the "Cannes Film Festival" in 1965.
availability:
VHS NTSC