Drama
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Hanna Schygulla
Pauline Kropp
Daniel Olbrychski
Wiktorczyk
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Mayer
Marie-Christine Barrault
Maria Wyler
Ben Becker
Klaus
Serge Merlin
Alker
Bernhard Wicki
Dr. Borg
Sigfrit Steiner
Melchior
Ralf Wolter
Schulze
Rainer Basedow
Stackmann's Son (uncredited)
Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Zinngruber
Dietrich Mattausch
Counsel (uncredited)
Gernot Duda
Stackmann
Dieter Kirchlechner
Mari De Paulina (uncredited)
Otto Sander
Narrator
Gérard Desarthe
Karl Wyler
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Elisabeth Schnittgens
Marie-Hélène Dasté
Maria Wyler, old
Jutta Klöppel
Stackmann's Stepdaughter (uncredited)
Christoph Beyertt
Patient
Gundula Petrovska
Postal Employee (uncredited)
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Piotr Łysak
Stanislaus
Gudrun Geier
Old Lady
Erika Wackernagel
Frau Melchior
Thomas Ringelmann
Herbert
Heidi Joschko
Frau Zinngruber
Ilse Bahrs
Frau Schnittgens, old
Jürgen Born
1 Policeman
Dieter Kursawe
2 Policeman
Ellen Esser
Prison Guard
Evelyn Meyka
Nun
Herbert Weißbach
Druggist
Ulrich Heimann
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Gerd Holtenau
Chief Physician (uncredited)
Hannes Kaetner
Klages (uncredited)
André Mantz
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Dorothea Moritz
Martha (uncredited)
Bernhard Papke
Soldier (uncredited)

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