The Real End of the Great War
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The Real End of the Great War is the English title for Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny, a film released in 1957, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Plot[]
Roza (Lucyna Winnicka) marries a promising young architect, Juliusz (). They have a blissful life together for the first few months, but then World War II breaks out and Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp soon after. Months and years go by, and Roza gradually 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 ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, and then out of pity, Roza starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly transform into a kind of revulsion.
Kawalerowicz here takes up a theme that would be frequently addressed by later Polish films: the lingering psychological and emotional scars wrought by the war, a kind of weight from the past impeding the creation of any kind of future.
See also[]
- Cinema of Poland
- List of Polish language films
External links[]
- 1957 films
- Polish films
- Films directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Polish-language films
- 1957 drama films
- 1950s drama film stubs
- Polish film stubs