At the end of World War II, on May 8, 1945, the war took on a different form in Poland. A ruthless struggle pitted Polish nationalists against the ruling communists. Amid the chaos, a young nationalist activist was tasked with killing a local communist leader alongside his comrade. But his morals and a new romantic encounter caused him to question his intentions and wonder whether it was all necessary.
"The romantic artist must transcend himself. He must be more than a creator. He must be the conscience of the nation, a prophet, a social institution.”
Andrzej Wajda
« I was never a fanatic of political cinema; only, it was something that I felt the need for, because there was no other possibility of expression. There was no free expression, free elections, so there was no one who would have represented certain things besides us artists. »
Andrzej Wajda
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