| The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown. |
| "(...) Film skonstruowany z trzech plynnie polaczonych ze soba czesci: I - Ucieczka (1904), II - Zamach (1905), III - Po burzy. Rewolucja 1905 roku. W zakonspirowanej pracowni chemicznej zostaje skonstruowana bomba ze specjalnym zapalnikiem. Odbiera ja mloda dziewczyna Kama. Konstruktor zostaje wkrotce aresztowany, a potem stracony. Bomba przechodzi z rak do rak: otrzymuje ja konspirator Leon, nastepnie przywodca chlopskiej grupy bojowej Kielza, w koncu anarchista Gryziak...(...)"
Stanislaw Zawislanski "Rezyseria: Agnieszka Holland" |
