A politically correct social drama maintained in the convention of a social realist film. The film received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The work of Aleksander Ford, an artist of the pre-war avant-garde, the omnipotent “Red Tsar” of Polish culture in the postwar period and the director of “Krzyżacy”, the biggest Polish box-office success of all time. A very good role of Tadeusz Janczar, who managed to put life into his otherwise rather conventional and flat character. An adaptation of Kazimierz Koźniewski’s novel.