A propaganda film which was to serve as a kind of counterbalance to the works of the Polish Film School. The work received the FIPRESCI Award at the Mar Del Plata Festival. One of the first pictures directed by Jerzy Passendorfer, a war cinema specialist, best known for his TV series “Janosik”. An adaptation of Roman Bratny’s novel “Szczęśliwi torturowani”, a symbolic epilogue to the writer’s most famous work and legendary novel “Kolumbowie rocznik 20” about the so-called Generation of Columbuses, i.e. young people whose adolescence was marked by the tragic events of World War II.