The Echo (1964)
Directed by Stanisław Różewicz
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this Polish drama, a man's past catches up with him and destroys his new life. Though he is a good father and a loving husband, his whole life is destroyed when his activities as a Nazi collaborator are exposed. He tries to explain that he only joined them to save another man's life, but he cannot prove this. His wife and child lose all respect for him. He then tries to commit suicide. He fails.
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child, claim, collaborator, death, disbelief, expose [revelation], father, husband, life, love, man, Nazism, Polish [nationality], respect, ruination, suicide, war, wife
