The Lynx

The film is set in Poland under German occupation. A priest lives in a small village. He is called Father Konrad. One day a young partisan comes to him. The partisan goes by the name Ryś. The man wants to make his confession. He is about to carry out a death sentence. The person he is to kill is held to be a traitor. The priest is astonished when he hears the name. The supposed traitor is Alojz, the village wheelwright. The priest had always taken him for an honest man. On top of that Alojz is hiding a Jewish family in his house. The priest begins to doubt the order. He asks the partisan for one day. The film was adapted from a story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and Franciszek Pieczka take the leads in Stanisław Różewicz’s Polish film of 1982.