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.
as Mateusz Szewczyk
as Stefan Gorzelak
as Pasiasia
as Mierzwowa
as Dziedziczka Lachowiczowa
as Mazurek
as Wladzio Rzepecki
as Antoni Andrzejewski
as Mazurkowa
as Kusidelka
as Kapitan
as Mierzwa
as Matka Gorzelaka
as Hanka
as Jurek Szewczyk, Mateusz's son
as Geometra Franus
as Tadek Mazurek
as Andrzejewska
as Pomocnik Geometry
as Soltys
as Tajniak
as Jozio Rzepecki
as Dawidek
as Ksiądz
as Fotograf
as Ojciec Gorzelaka
as Kierowca
