The Disobedient Lovers
Director Barbara Lipinska
Countries Poland
Duration 53 min
Synopsis
“And suddenly a young, very handsome German officer appeared in the doorway”. Love for “the enemy” takes Janina by surprise in the final days of the Nazi occupation. She considers herself a Polish patriot, and her fiancé Jan is pining for her in a concentration camp. 66 years after the war, Anna – Jan and Janina’s granddaughter, the daughter of a Polish woman and a German – begins to ask about her family’s past. History comes alive; and with it emotions.
“And suddenly a young, very handsome German officer appeared in the doorway”. Love for “the enemy” takes Janina by surprise in the final days of the Nazi occupation. She considers herself a Polish patriot, and her fiancé Jan is pining for her in a concentration camp. 66 years after the war, Anna – Jan and Janina’s granddaughter, the daughter of a Polish woman and a German – begins to ask about her family’s past. History comes alive; and with it emotions.