The Prison Guard
The protagonist of the film "Klawisz" is Jan Doliński, a former guard of the Lublin Castle prison, who held his post during the German occupation and remained in it almost until the prison was liquidated in 1954. He was dismissed because he did not want to join the Polish United Workers' Party.
Józef Gębski
Director
Also Directed by Józef Gębski
A report on the exhumation of the remains of the victims of Stalinist repression in the 1930s. The bodies of the prisoners shot by the NKVD in a nearby prison were buried in the area adjacent to the present-day Irkutsk airport.
Józef Gębski's film is a documentary reconstruction of the crime committed by NKVD officers against Polish officers imprisoned in Starobielsk and Kharkov in 1940. Accounts of historians and prosecutors are juxtaposed with the testimony of the then heads of the central and regional NKVD board.
During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology.
