It has been two years since the end of World War II. Ludwik and his family leave Lvov and move to Krakow. The boy quickly befriends a group of boys at school and starts a new life in a city he has seen before only on postmarks. He leads a regular life of a fourteen year old boy with first infatuations, practical jokes, and quarrels with teachers. However, that youthful unconcern is constantly confronted with the post-war reality; and when Ludwik is unjustly arrested, a seed of rebellion against the oppression in the name of freedom is born. The screenplay is based on a true story.
The film screens in Polish, with Estonian and English subtitles.
The Rite of Passage
Mała Matura 1947
Genre
Drama
Director
Janusz Majewski
Run time
1h 49min
Cast
Adam Wróblewski, Artur Żmijewski, Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Genre
Drama
Director
Janusz Majewski
Run time
1h 49min
Cast
Adam Wróblewski, Artur Żmijewski, Olgierd Łukaszewicz
It has been two years since the end of World War II. Ludwik and his family leave Lvov and move to Krakow. The boy quickly befriends a group of boys at school and starts a new life in a city he has seen before only on postmarks. He leads a regular life of a fourteen year old boy with first infatuations, practical jokes, and quarrels with teachers. However, that youthful unconcern is constantly confronted with the post-war reality; and when Ludwik is unjustly arrested, a seed of rebellion against the oppression in the name of freedom is born. The screenplay is based on a true story.
The film screens in Polish, with Estonian and English subtitles.
The film screens in Polish, with Estonian and English subtitles.
Info
Rating
(none)
Production year
2010
Global distributor
-
Local distributor
-
In cinema
6/9/2012