Call of the Toad

(Wróżby kumaka)

Alexander, a German born in Gdańsk, lives in Germany. Aleksandra, a Polish woman, born in Vilnius, lives in Gdańsk. He left Gdansk in 1945; she left Vilnius also in 1945. They did not simply go away, they were exiled. They meet each other in Gdańsk, in 1989, when Alexander comes back after more than 40 years. He was in Hitlerjugend when he was very young; she was very active as a member of the ZMP (The Polish Youth Association). Flirting and arguing, they fall in love. Both of them would like to contribute to the reconciliation of Poland and Germany. They begin the Polish-German Cemetery Society in order to give the dead the right to symbolically come back to their homelands.

Director: Gliński, Robert

Screenplay: Klaus Richter, Cezary Harasimowicz, Paweł Huelle

Cinematography: Jacek Petrycki

Music: Richard G. Mitchell

Film Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmański

Principal Cast: Krystyna Janda, Matthias Habich, Dorothea Walda, Bhasker Patel, Udo Samel, Marek Kondrat, Mareike Carriere, Joachim Krol, Zbigniew Zamachowski

Runtime: 94 minutes

Release Year: 2005

Genre: Drama