Burial of a Potato (1990)
Drama
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Cast
Franciszek Pieczka
Mateusz Szewczyk
Adam Ferency
Stefan Gorzelak
Mariusz Saniternik
Pasiasia
Ewa Żukowska
Mierzwowa
Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska
Dziedziczka Lachowiczowa
Bogusław Sochnacki
Mazurek
Grzegorz Heromiński
Wladzio Rzepecki
Feliks Szajnert
Antoni Andrzejewski
Katarzyna Łaniewska
Mazurkowa
Irena Burawska
Kusidelka