At the end of World War Two, Poland's western border shifted west into what had been German territory. In this movie, a group of men, most of them concentration camp survivors, go to an abandoned German town ostensibly to prepare it for Polish refugees to move in. They arrive in town, meet a group of women and a drunken German waiter. They go to what had been an expensive hotel and drink and party as it becomes clear to the hero, a former resistance fighter, that they're there to loot the place.
A Polish action film. I can sort of understand it being compared to an American western but that may be a little misleading.
With an off-camera rape, two or three murders and a long gun fight. The men are armed with German Walther P-38s, Soviet Nagant revolvers and a German submachine gun.
Directed by Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skorzewski.
Black and white, 90 minutes.
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