Krzysztof Stachowski

Libéré de prison après cinq ans, l'escroc Szu est renvoyé de chez lui par sa jeune femme; il se dirige vers la ville de Lutyn où il monte une escroquerie et attire l'intérêt de Jurek, un jeune chauffeur de taxi qui s'imagine un grand escroc.

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.

L’intrigue labyrinthique tourne autour d’un groupe de chercheurs de l’espace qui fuit la Terre pour trouver la liberté. Leur vaisseau se détruit et ils atterrissent sur la face cachée de la Lune. Ils meurent tous sauf un, lequel se retrouve au milieu de nombreux enfants adeptes du chamanisme et feux d’artifice. Ils le surnomment « Le vieil homme » et le considèrent doublement, tantôt en dieu tantôt en diable.

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.