Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
as Tadeusz
as Nina
as Professor
as Karol
as Priest - Editor
as Ensign
as Tolek
as Cygan
as Prisoner
as American Commander
as German Woman on Bicycle
as American
as Nina's Friend
as German in Barracks
as Cook
as American Guard
as Archbishop
as Polish Officer
as Capo
as Major
as American Soldier
as Colonel
as Priest
as American Soldier
as Prisoner (uncredited)
as American Soldier (uncredited)
as Camp Prisoner (uncredited)
as Prisoner (uncredited)
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as Prisoner (uncredited)
as Prisoner (uncredited)
as Prisoner (uncredited)