
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.
Tadeusz

Nina

Professor

Karol

Priest - Editor

Ensign

Tolek

Cygan
Prisoner

American Commander

German Woman on Bicycle

American

Nina's Friend

German in Barracks

Cook

American Guard

Archbishop
Polish Officer

Capo
Major
American Soldier

Colonel
Unknown Role
Priest
Unknown Role
American Soldier

Prisoner (uncredited)

American Soldier (uncredited)
Camp Prisoner (uncredited)

Prisoner (uncredited)

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Prisoner (uncredited)

Prisoner (uncredited)

Prisoner (uncredited)