Zanussi's most ambitious and emotionally resonant film, A Year of the Quiet Sun subtly interrelates two narrative threads. One is historical: the forced relocation in 1945 of millions of people along ethnic lines, to prepare for the new borders of the expanded Soviet sphere. This is complemented by the sensitively rendered romance of an American soldier and a Polish widow. Through rhyming gestures, criss-crossing movements, and shifting planes of action, Zanussi maps out the possibilities and paradoxes that defined the brief window between the end of the Second World War and the start of the Cold War. With English subtitles.