All That Really Matters

A film adaptation of an autobiographical novel by Ola Watowa. A story of the breath-taking love between Ola and Aleksander Wat. When he’s arrested, she and her son are sent deep into Russia, to Kazakhstan, to work on the field of a sovkhoz with other Polish exiles. As a Jew and a wife of a Communist, Ola is rejected by Poles. Dealing with a mad love of a Soviet commanding officer, she desperately fights for her and her son’s survival.

Among many other accolades, the film received the Golden Lions at the 17^th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1992, and the Peace Prize at the 1994 Trieste Film Festival.