1989 film by Henryk Bielski

The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.

Three friends from the neighborhood – Adi, Pele and Chemist – are often referred to as freeloaders, morons, losers. This is a gross simplification! In fact they are underestimated by the world. It hasn't appreciated them YET. Life presents them with challenges and difficulties, like bad luck at work or mentally ill neighbor's dog or a grandmother who steals their hashish. But they do not give up!

Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth – the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname – after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth – the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek’s soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess. And even though he is continuously humiliated and driven away, betrayed and victimized, he manages to retain his personal dignity and trustful nature of a small child. Throughout all his life Bronek has been searching for his mother.