Aftermath

Poland

Another film dealing with the ugly reverberations left behind by the Nazis. Here we learn the secret a village has hidden from the outside world since WW2. A Polish-American returnee stirs the pot and exposes the past...against the popular will.

The film is largely one of conflict. The scenes and the characters were awkward, clumsy. I wonder if this was intentional...after all this was rural Poland...or simply a reflection of Baltic traits of which the director was unaware. Regardless, this effected the tone and impact...not necessarily for the better.

There have been hundreds of films centered on German monstrousness. This was another.

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