Trzecia czesc nocy

Jan 4 1972 N/A 1h 45m
Drama, Horror, War

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were employed as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

Plot

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The young man decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting Gestapo kills his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end a misery of a man mistaken by him and tortured where he seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.

Written by

Andrzej Zulawski, Miroslaw Zulawski

Directed by

Andrzej Zulawski

Cast

Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki

Crew

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Production Countries

Poland

Production Companies

Polski State Film

Languages

Polski

Awards

N/A

Trailers
TRZECIA CZESC NOCY | Trailer | The Third Part of the Night
The Third Part of the Night 1971
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