Popielec

Through the fate of the main character Józek Garstka the Polish village was depicted during the Nazi occupation and at the beginning of the communist regime 19401945 and 1956 in a way that differed from the previously binding narrative Trying to survive the difficult times people lost in the new reality often behave in a way that is far removed from the propaganda stereotypes cultivated in earlier Polish cinematography about war heroism sacrifice and sacrifice In fact it is a generational saga of the Polish countryside referring to the TV series Chłopi by J Rybkowski but taking place in a particularly difficult period of the 20th century