Movies and TvShows featuring "post-world-war-two-poland" theme.

In post-World War II Poland, a pregnant nun finds herself in a convent where she grapples with her traumatic experience of being raped by a Soviet soldier. As she tries to hide her pregnancy and cope with her fear of hell, she forms complex relationships with the abbess, other nuns, and a French Red Cross doctor. The nun's journey towards healing and forgiveness is explored amidst the backdrop of a war-torn country.

In 1945, fifteen million orphans roamed in the debris of a Europe recovering from the deadliest conflict it had ever known. Through recolorized archives, testimonies of survivors and reenactment, our film will relate this obscure and unknown episode of the immediate post-war period, overshadowed by the atrocities of the conflict.

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

In 1945, twelve million homeless children wandered through the rubble of a Europe that had just emerged from the deadliest conflict it had ever known. An unprecedented number of children were separated from their parents or orphaned. Under the guise of the best interests of these children and of the nation, France, the United States, Great Britain and the countries of Central Europe embarked on a veritable race for children. By demographic opportunism, by fear of seeing them indoctrinated by a new totalitarianism, these countries move and adopt these orphans, erasing their history and their identity.