On the Making of ‘Aftermath,’ the Controversial Polish Film Now Opening in the U.S. - a podcast by Vox Tablet

Last year, a film was released in Poland that was so controversial it was banned in some towns. Opening in New York on Friday and Los Angeles later this month, Pok?osie—or, Aftermath—is a thriller that tells the story of a rural farmer on a mission. At night, Jo?zek Kalina digs up Jewish grave markers that were looted from a local cemetery and used by fellow villagers in their roads and gardens. Jo?zek is trying to give the village’s Jewish dead a proper burial, but there’s a high cost to his activity. His wife has left him and taken the children, and his neighbors are reacting with growing menace.

The film is brutal and haunting, invoking the horrors of the...

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