Landscape After the
Battle ( Polish : Krajobraz po bitwie) is a 1970 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Daniel Olbrychski; telling a story of a Nazi German
concentration camp survivor soon after liberation, residing in a DP camp somewhere in Germany . It is based on the writings of Holocaust survivor and Polish
author Tadeusz Borowski. In most part, the plot revolves around the events depicted in Borowski's short story called "Bitwa pod Grunwaldem" ("The
Battle of Grunwald") from his
collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. The film was entered into the 1970
Cannes Film Festival .
The Landscape After the
Battle film tells a story of two young
concentration camp survivors. In the opening sequence, Vivaldi 's “
Autumn ” can be heard while the prisoners are liberated. A young Polish poet , Tadeusz, is asked by a pretty Jewish girl , Nina, to go with her to the West . His camp experience , however, prevents him from realizing the depth of her love for him, and he is reluctant to commit. Nina is accidentally shot dead by an
American soldier , causing Tadeusz to cry for the first time in years. The shock of her death brings back the world of feelings suppressed by his Nazi captors, and allows for his original
creativity to reemerge.
