At Full Gallop

The story is set in Poland after the Second World War. The country is under communist rule. A boy’s father chose to remain in Britain after the war, and that choice has made the family suspect in the eyes of the local party officials. His mother sends him to Warsaw, to a woman he calls his aunt. She is in fact an old friend of the family. There the boy meets a life quite unlike his own. The film tells how a private life gets built inside a country under pressure. Krzysztof Zanussi described this as the work closest to his own life. Maja Komorowska and Bartosz Obuchowicz appear in the hundred and four minute Polish film, completed in 1996.