Burial of a Potato

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.

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski

Cast: Franciszek Pieczka, Adam Ferency, Mariusz Saniternik, Ewa Żukowska, Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Bogusław Sochnacki, Grzegorz Heromiński, Feliks Szajnert

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.