Wróżby kumaka, 2005, 99 min.
Director | Robert Glinski | |
Screenplay | Pawel Huelle, Cezary Harasimowicz, Klaus Richter (based on a novel by Günter Grass) | |
Cinematography | Jacek Petrycki | |
Music | Richard G. Mitchell | |
Art Director | Robert Czesak, Jochen Schumacher | |
Producer | Henryk Romanowski, Regina Zieglar |
Aleksandra Piatkowska | Krystyna Janda | |
Alexander Reschke | Matthias Habich | |
Erna | Dorothea Walda | |
Vielbrand | Udo Samel | |
Marczyk | Marek Kondrat | |
Wrobel | Krzysztof Globisz | |
Bieronski | Zbigniew Zamachowski |
He – Aleksander, the German born in Gdansk, lives in Germany, she – Aleksandra, the Polk born in Vilnius, lives in Gdansk. He left Gdansk in 1945, she left Vilnius also in 1945. They did not simply go away, they were exiled. They met in Gdansk in 1989, when Aleksander comes back to Poland after more than fourty years. Aleksander was in Hitlerjugend as a teenager, Aleksandra was an active member of ZMP – The Polish Youth Association. Flirting and arguing, they fall in love with each other. Both of them would like to contribute to reconciliation of the two nations, Polish and German. They begin the Polish-German Cemetery Society in order to give to the dead the right symbolically to come back to their homelands.