The Third Part of the Night 1972

Title: The Third Part of the Night
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Languages: Polish
Genres: Drama, Horror, War,
Runtime: 1:47:00 Hour
Cast: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki
Directors: Andrzej Zulawski
Rating: 7.3 (2640 Votes)
Year: 1972
Summary: Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.