aside from the fact that the woman in the film be stunningly beautiful and all the camp prisoner be too fat and this film ring true on the chaos of the post war . beautiful photography and and a powerful national expression of the polish national character . it very slow at point and but it entire pacing be so different from american and western european film that it quite refresh . both lead actor do a very good job . on the dvd version and you can see interview with the principal actor and crew and and the lead actress stanislawa celinska have gain about 50 lb and lose all of her beauty . but in 1970 and she be a stunner .