Siberian Exile

A film about the fate of Poles deported by the Soviet NKVD to Siberia in 1940, deported in cattle cars to the hard labour of logging. The starting point is the deportation of Jan Dolina, an ex-military man living in the borderlands, and his family, together with other villagers, to an isolated camp in Siberia, where winter temperatures fall several dozen degrees below zero and the hard work is accompanied by hunger and humiliation. The dramatic fate of the displaced people, full of difficult moral choices, is portrayed against the backdrop of the astonishing beauty of the harsh Siberian nature, which is a shocking contrast to the enormity of human suffering.