The Butler

After his mother dies Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, is taken in by a Prussian aristocrat Gerda von Krauss. He is growing up in her palace. The daughter of the von Krausses, Marita, is the same age as he is. Love buds between the two. The boy’s godfather is Bazyli Miotke, a Kashubian patriot who fights in Versailles for Kashubia to have its place on the map of Poland, and goes on to build the symbol of its economic success, the City of Gdynia. The Treaty of Versailles grants Poland its independence but also makes the von Krauss family lose their property and influence. All the protagonists can feel that the world as they know it is about to change drastically. Hostility and hatred increase among the Kashubs, Poles and Germans. IIWW breaks out. In the Piaśnica Forest the Nazis murder civilians, which becomes the first genocide of this war.

written by Mirosław Piepka, Michał S. Pruski, Marek Klat
director of photography Łukasz Gutt
music Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz