A communist militiaman, two eager youths, and a gangster named 'Bull' walk into postwar Poland...
Shortly after World War 2 a militiaman with the help of two Union of Young Struggle members wages war on a local gang terrorising a small Masurian town.
Acting
Filipski's militiaman — bureaucratic menace wrapped in a uniform.
Direction
Podgórski shoots Masuria like a ghost town that never stopped fighting.
Director
Waldemar Podgórski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Poland's thaw period, it smuggles cynical questions about state power inside approved socialist-realist packaging.
The Masurian setting isn't random — it's a historically contested borderland where 'law' has always been imposed from outside.
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