在这部恶梦剧情片中,影片讲述一个波兰小男孩被父母送进严酷的寄宿学校，在那里受到了人性的压抑和诱惑并逐渐成长成一个具有反叛精神和独立思想的激进诗人。影片背景设置在一战以前，那时波兰这个国家还不存在，而是受到了奥匈帝国和俄国双重的统治，导演也借此片反映出自己祖国的黑暗历史。1979年圣塞巴斯蒂安电影节OCIC奖。
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
弧光灯——唯有不报希望爱着他的那个人才了解他。
