The book, "Syberiada Polska," was written by Zbigniew Domino in 2001, and it details the struggles of those Poles from eastern Poland who were deported to the labor camps in Siberia soon after the 1939 Soviet invasion, when-as stipulated by the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact-eastern Poland was annexed to the USSR.
īe that as it may, this film provokes a concomitant side issue that relates to the story's source. The cinematography is very good the acting is very good the locations seem appropriately desolate and cold, but the plot is convoluted and meandering (probably the result of poor editing). I would also note that the DVD has a four minute supplement that intermingles clips from the movie with a performance by Anna Wyszkoni and Piotr Cugowski.This is an interesting film. In the final analysis, whether Domino is guilty of having succumbed to the Stockholm syndrome, or is just another example of Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil (or both), his role as an important functionary of the Communist Party, who investigated, participated, and witnessed the executions of a considerable number of Polish patriots (in the 1950s) profoundly tarnishes our respect for his reputation and character, at the same time that his literary gifts serve to amplify the history of the USSR’s mass deportations to Siberia.
His rise through the ranks of the Polish Communist Party landed him in the middle of the Polish judiciary during the time (1950s) that the brutal hardline communists were arresting, torturing, and executing so many of WWII’s heroic Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighters because of their perceived threat to communist rule. And although the film is not especially sympathetic to the Soviet authorities who supervised the harsh Polish internment, Domino returned to Poland after the war (ca. Domino was about ten years old when he and his family were among the hundreds of thousands who we’re forced out of their Polish homes and sent east to work in Siberia.
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