Leave No Traces

Section: Focus Polonia
Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Cast: Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak
Duration: 2h 40m
Country: Poland
Language: pl
Year: 2021

Poland, 1983. Grzegorz Przemyk, son of the opposition poet Barbara Sadowska, is arrested and badly beaten by a police patrol. Przemyk dies after two days of agony. The only witness to the fatal beating is one of Grzegorz's colleagues, Jurek Popiel, who decides to fight for justice and to testify against the police. But isn't that an impossible endeavour?