From Hell to Hell

In this dramatic film about the Kielce pogrom, two young couples, one Polish-Christian and the other Polish-Jewish, get married in Kielce in 1938. They become friends, and when war breaks out and the Jews are deported, the Polish-Jewish couple asks their childless Christian friends to take care of their infant daughter. When the Jewish couple returns to Kielce after the war, they want their daughter back, but she is now an eight-year-old who has been brought up as a Catholic. The tension between the two couples reaches a boiling point as the Kielce pogrom takes place. A list of the victims appears on screen at the end of the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best foreign film in 1996.