Polish director Andrzej Zulawski's award-winning debut feature is set in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. A young man, Michal (Leszek Teleszynski), escapes the massacre of his family, and his subsequent guilt and experiences are shown through multi-layered symbolism and apocalyptic imagery.

Hungarian drama in which orphaned teenager Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkoczi) and her grandparents return from exile in Russia to Budapest after World War II. Unfortunately Juli's hopes of happiness in her homeland are gradually eroded by the strictures of a disciplinarian society.