The Real End of the Great War

(1957)

★ 8.3 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1957

Runtime: 89 мин

Country: Poland

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Janina Sokołowska, Roland Głowacki, Andrzej Szalawski, Olga Bielska, Helena Dąbrowska, Janina Jabłonowska, Edward Gliński, Kazimierz Dębowski, Zdzisław Leśniak

Plot

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża 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, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion