The Reconciliation

Sobieszczański's prize-winning debut feature centers on a doomed love triangle inside a Communist Security Service labor camp in Poland in the latter days of World War II. Young Franek enlists as a guard with the secret agenda of saving his first love Anna. But their friend Erwin, who also loves Anna, is incarcerated in the camp, too. Trapped in a savage, chaotic environment where making ethical choices becomes near impossible, the trio gives in to complex, ambiguous urges. (Chicago International Film Festival)