Burial of a Potato

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1990

Original language

Polish

Cast

Krystyna Feldman,Franciszek Pieczka,Grzegorz Heromiński,Andrzej Jurczak,Jan Jankowski,Jakub Gryczyński,Zdzisław Owczarek,Bogusław Sochnacki,Katarzyna Łaniewska,Zdzisław Szczepaniakand 17 more

Director

Jan Jakub Kolski

Writer

Jan Jakub Kolski

Cinematography

Wojciech Todorow

Music

Zygmunt Konieczny

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0102684