Andrzej Szczypiorski

1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.