He Left on a Bright, Sunny Day

A para-documentary film about the holy war that has been going on for years between the peasants of a small village and the management of the State Farm.

A story about the inhabitants of Warsaw's Praga from the late 1970s. There are representatives of the social margin among them, but there are also a collector of works of art, an ex-peasant who keeps raising peacocks, an old woman collecting dolls. This extremely colorful company lives in old, demolished tenement houses.

Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime.

After two years in prison, Adam returns home set on revenge against the uncle who betrayed him. En route, he lands a job on a highway construction site near his uncle’s village. Soon, fellow ex-con Tojfel appears and makes a chilling offer: his men will kill the uncle if Adam joins his new criminal schemes. Adam’s silence triggers a violent spiral that threatens everything he holds dear - especially his growing love for young trainee Magda.

An adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky.