Story
Sandomierz is a picturesque town in southeastern Poland. Early morning in spring, a woman’s body is found outside a former synagogue. Someone has slashed her throat open– and it looks as if it was done with the enormous razor found lying nearby. A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki, who has just divorced his wife and left Warsaw to start a new life in Sandomierz is called in to investigate this strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. He conducts the investigation with the help of an aging policeman and a reluctant lady prosecutor. Gradually he discovers the subtle ins and outs of local society and history. In his efforts to solve the mystery he investigates a love triangle, an ancient Jewish ritual, and some Nazi symbols. It seems that all murders are connected to alleged, historical Jewish ritual killings and finally they prompt a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish -Jewish relations and real findings of his work – that roots of some legends are fantasy, not a grain of truth.
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Ziarno Prawdy
Fiction Feature
Polish
Kaleidoscope | FF2015
Poland
2015
111 min
OV with German subtitles
Borys Lankosz
Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Borys Lankosz based on the novel "A Grain of Truth" by Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Robert Więckiewicz, Jerzy Trela, Magdalena Walach, Aleksandra Hamkało, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Andrzej Zieliński, Zohar Strauss
Anna Drozd
Łukasz Bielan
Wojciech Anuszczyk
Abel Korzeniowski
Magdalena Dipont, Robert Czesak
PRSENS Agnieszka Mrowińska
Studio Rewers Sp. z o.o.
Agnieszka Mrowińska, PRSENS: agnieszka.mrowinska@prsens.pl