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.

Directed by Jan Jakub Kolski

Top cast

Franciszek Pieczka

Mateusz Szewczyk

Adam Ferency

Stefan Gorzelak

Mariusz Saniternik

Pasiasia

Ewa Żukowska

Mierzwowa

Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska

Dziedziczka Lachowiczowa

Bogusław Sochnacki

Mazurek

Grzegorz Heromiński

Wladzio Rzepecki

Feliks Szajnert

Antoni Andrzejewski

Katarzyna Łaniewska

Mazurkowa

Irena Burawska

Kusidelka

Henryk Niebudek

Kapitan

Andrzej Jurczak

Mierzwa

Krystyna Feldman

Matka Gorzelaka

J

Joanna Jankowska-Hussakowska

Hanka

Jan Jankowski

Jurek Szewczyk, Mateusz's son

Lech Gwit

Geometra Franus

Dariusz Siatkowski

Tadek Mazurek

Mirosława Marcheluk

Andrzejewska

Tadeusz Falana

Pomocnik Geometry

Ryszard Mróz

Soltys

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