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The Rite of Passage

The Rite of Passage

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 9, 2010

Runtime

1h 49m

Genres

Drama

User Score

61%

Original Title

Mała matura 1947

Production Companies

Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe

Director

Janusz Majewski

Description

A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...