landscape after a battle open with escape prisoner over a snowy field full of fence in rather funny movement accompany by vivaldis four season . a touching opening . but we soon enough learn to know these prisoner a a mob and and when they ( also treat humouristic ) burry a man alive and the protagonist stop for a moment and but be soon more engage in find book from the turndowned camp than care about his neighbour . the rest of the film be set in an american camp from where the prisoner be not release and in some kind of semi freedom and semi camp . a perfect set for a study of war criminality and american camp and polish nationalism and catholisism and grief and human misery in general . film make an important turn . in come woman and and with them film change light and colour and temper . at the same time it turn out that these prisoner be slave in holocaust . i think a main underlying political theme of the film must mankind treatment of jew under and after the world war and and not only the nazi extermination and but mankind let it happen and even force them out of europe after the war . on an emotional level the film be about grief and the problem with let grief come and how environment make grief difficult and and how difficult it can be to share grief for people with different experience . but the film be a carpet of underlying contradiction and humour and irony and sudden beauty . a couple of time during the film a gypsy prisoner play on an harp and an emotional tune brutally reject ( filmatically speak ) by the protagonist . that example pick up an important essence of the film style and theme . when it come to humour it very comic how the protagonist constantly loose and find back his glass and in crowd and in hay stack etc . it not hard to understand spielberg respect of wajda when you see this film . the great treatment of light can be compare with spielberg on his best . the grunwald intermezzo speaks for itself . narrativly it only bring the film out of the camp and but filmatically it bring the film to dream and eternity with profound beauty . anyhow and there be also another scene i can not let go without comment . it the christian supper . undoubtly ironical and but simultaneously deeply religious we see the transsubstantiation moment and everybody fall on their knee and while the protagonist be save from isolation by the priest to serve a a comic altar boy . his bell be mock the scene and but also give it emotion and love . when nina get her bread and sun light fall upon her and bell ring spheric and it the peak moment of the film . main actor be excellent in their role . olbrychski a the perfect wajda protagonist the doubt reflect mind and unable to put all the aspect of his mind and emotion into life . beautiful celinska be with great body act debut in a character unable to express all her inner in her proud movement . those who try to describe everything and often be unable to take nothing in consideration . this be what wajda manage . his film be either very moving and deep or beautifully shot and but pay attention to life and society particularity . a moment of joy for one and be the moment of irony for a second and the moment of grief for the third and a moment of nothing for the fourth . there be at least two reason to pay attention to wajdas film of this period . first be the remarkable free expression of deep political impact . this country be the first to overthrow communism twenty year later . second be the development of a filmatic and narrative language that kusturica have rise to grandeur .