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It is 1939 and in the Wolyn Voivodeship in eastern Poland, where a German minority has settled for hundreds of years, the Volksdeutsche find themselves more and more alienated from an increasingly scared Polish population, who react to Hitler's threats with an amplified and hysterical nationalism.   Dr. Thomas, a physician, is not allowed by the Poles to have his own practice and his daughter Marie, who herself becomes more radicalized by Polish abuse, watches in horror as the local German school is vandalized and desecrated by the town's Poles.   Incensed, Marie protests the destruction of the school to the town's mayor, who flippantly suggests she either learn to become a good Pole or to leave the country altogether with her Landsmanner.   Dismayed that nothing will be done to protect her people, Marie goes with her father and a friend to the region capital, Luck, to protest to higher authorities, who decline to hear their complaints as well. Deciding to stay in the capital in order to call on the court the next day, that evening they go to the cinema.  They are accompanied there by her friend Karl Michalek, who was conscripted into the Polish army.  At one point in the theatre, the Polish national anthem is played, which the Germans refuse to sing.  For this, they are attacked and Marie's fiancee, Fritz, is badly injured.  Rushing him to a local hospital, they are refused entry by the Poles and he dies outside in the streets. The acts of violence against the German minority continue to increase;  Marie's father becomes the victim of an attack by Polish children, who shoot him in the face, and is blinded as a result.  When the Germans meet secretly in a barn, in order to hear Hitler's speech of 1 September before the Reichstag, they are discovered, arrested and imprisoned. They are abused by the prison guards and are set to be executed the next morning.  Will the Germans arrive in time to save them?  Regardless of your point of view, this film is very moving and disturbing to watch.

DVD-R is in German with no subtitles.  Approx. 90 mins.  See film samples for quality.

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