Abel, Your Brother - Poland (Excerpt)

16mm Film - Abel, Your Brother - Poland 1970 (Excerpt)

Direction: Janusz Nasfeter

Script: Janusz Nasfeter and Teresa Nasfeter

Camera: Stanisław Loth

Music: Waldemar Kazanecki

Cast: Filip Łobodziński, Edward Dymek, Henryk Gołębiewski, Katarzyna Łaniewska, Roman Mosior, Henryk Bąk, Witold Dederko, Jacek Fedorowicz, Zdzisław Leśniak, Krystyna Feldman, Maria Kaniewska, Wojciech Rajewski, Małgorzata Włodarska, Wojciech Skut, Wojciech Andrulewicz, Andrzej Boczula, Dorota Czajko, Bogdan Graczyk, Bogdan Izdebski, Anna Nowak, Ryszard Roguski, Bohdan Rokita, Renata Sawiel, Zbigniew Sutkowski, Andrzej Mączka, Grzegorz Roman, Piotr Sot, and others.

Karol, who suffers under his mother's excessive care, arrives at a new school after his father's death, where he is not accepted by the class clique and is mocked as a mama's boy. Although the boy gives in to the group's pressure, he is tyrannized. Only his death from an incurable illness makes his classmates reflect. Crafted with sensitivity to child psychology and distinguished by excellent direction of the actors (almost exclusively amateurs), the film raises awareness of the problems of both children and adults.

An avalanche of harassment falls on Karol. Constantly persecuted, he feels like a cornered, defenseless animal. He begins to hate his classmates and avoid school... He contracts meningitis. After several months, news of his death reaches the class. His tormentors are the most shaken.