Wajda’s homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the “Polish James Dean” who starred in the director’s ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to…

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former’s grandfather.

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the “gangsters” and “philanthropists” end up in the courtroom.