Burial of a Potato (1990)

• 71%
• 1990
• Drama
• Jan Jakub Kolski
• Franciszek Pieczka
• Adam Ferency
• Mariusz Saniternik

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.