Tonia and her Children

11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.

• Marcel ŁozińskiScreenplay · Director
• Jacek PetryckiDirector of Photography
• Magda KowalczykDirector of Photography
• Paweł ŁozińskiDirector of Photography
• Maria BikontOriginal Music Composer
• Przemysław ChruścielewskiEditor

Release date

January 1, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

Polish

Genres

Documentary