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Burial of a Potato (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 96 mins · Polish
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- Directed by
- Jan Jakub Kolski
- Starring
- Adam Ferency, Henryk Niebudek, Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Mariusz Saniternik, Ryszard Mróz, Franciszek Pieczka
Set in 1946 Poland, a former concentration‑camp prisoner returns to his village, only to meet suspicion and hostility. Mateusz, an aging saddler, is falsely called a Jew and shunned by neighbors who blame him for wartime losses, especially his son’s death. Meanwhile, the nascent communist regime rises in the background.
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