in 1943 and in warsaw and the jew alek ( lambert wilson ) and fryda ( julie delpy ) and escape from the ghetto through the sewer tunnel . alek leave his wife fryda in a church and look for help . stephania ( hanna schygulla ) and a german christian woman of about forty year old living alone and give shelter and food for alek . in the night and they have an affair and and alek and want to keep the protection of stephania and lie to her . he say that fryda would be his little sister and and stephania brings her from the church and lodge both of them at her home . fryda become jealous with the situation and perform all sort of betrayal and cruelty against stephania . her final revenge lead the trio to a tragic end . this movie be a tragic drama about choice in life for survive and support by the outstanding performance of julie delpy and lambert wilson and hanna schygulla and the magnificent direction of janusz kijovwki . stephania choose for help the jew alek and fryda in an occupied poland . alek chooses for not tell the truth about fryda to stephania . fryda chooses to double cross stephania and alek . stephania choose to have a baby . alek chooses stephania . in the end and he choose for risk his life for fryda . julie delpy highlight with a character very mean and blind by the feeling of revenge . my vote be seven . title ( brazil ) represent ` varsóvia ano 5703 ( ` warsaw year 5703 ) .