Movielogr
Burial of a Potato (1990)
Directed by Jan Jakub Kolski
Overview
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don’t want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Franciszek Pieczka | Adam Ferency | Mariusz Saniternik | Ewa Zukowska | Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska | Bogusław Sochnacki | Grzegorz Heromiński | Feliks Szajnert | Katarzyna Łaniewska | Irena Burawska | Henryk Niebudek | Andrzej Jurczak | Krystyna Feldman | Joanna Jankowska-Hussakowska | Jan Jankowski | Lech Gwit | Dariusz Siatkowski | Mirosława Marcheluk | Tadeusz Falana | Ryszard Mróz | Pawel Siedlik | Jakub Gryczyński | Michał Iwański | Zdzisław Szczepaniak | Eugeniusz Korczarowski | Zdzisław Owczarek | Mieczysław Piwowarski