Burial of a Potato

Burial of a Potato

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1990

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama

User Score

77%

Original Title

Pogrzeb kartofla

Director

Jan Jakub Kolski

Description

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.