Der Kristallspiegel

Directed by Gerhard Respondek

With Otto Mellies, Bianca Cavallini, Fritz Mohr, Herwart Grosse and Wilfried Ortmann

In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance. He soon becomes entangled in the fierce postwar power struggle between the Soviet-backed People’s Government—nationalizing industry and land—and reactionary exiled forces waging “bandit terror,” from train robberies to political assassinations. As violence escalates, Wojtek shifts from observer to active defender of the new “people’s power.”