An estimated 1 100 citizens were injured during the mass anti-Communist demonstrations against food prices in Poland in December 1970. As many as 45 people died under tank tracks

Up to 45 people died under tank tracks during demonstrations in Poland in December 1970

Demonstration in Poland in December 1970 against the increase in food prices. The government of the time cracked down very hard on demonstrators

Polish President Lech Wałęsa and US President George Bush during a visit to Poland in July 1989

Polish President Lech Wałęsa, Prime Minister, Bishop during a service in the summer of 1989

Demonstrations in Gdansk in the summer of 1989

Demonstration in Gdansk, Poland, summer 1989

Demonstration in Poland 1980. Emergence of Polish Solidarity

Polish President Lech Wałęsa during the summer of 1989

František Postupa in the Memory of Nations Studio in Hradec Králové in 2023

František Postupa in the Memory of Nations Studio in Hradec Králové in 2023

Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army, among them is Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil, photographs from 1914-1916

Family photograph of the Vyskočil family from Budkovice from about 1908. Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil is standing in the top row, second from the left. Below him sits his sister Anna, who drowned herself and her two children in a pond as a result of an unhappy marriage

Mother Marie Vyskočilová (sitting in the second row from the bottom, third from the left) in the German church school in Opava, which she attended until she was fourteen years old, the photo is from 1920

Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil as a Samaritan (in the photo with glasses and a cross on his sleeve) during a joint entry on the Upper Square in Opava, 1920s

Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil in a white coat as a clerk of the Provincial Hospital in Opava in front of the hospital administration building, 1930s

Zdenka Pospíšilová's uncle Karel Vyskočil as a soldier sitting in the background at the head of a table with medical staff, 1920s

Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil as a 20-year-old soldier of the Austro-Hungarian army, photographs from 1914-1916

Young students and trainees of the Provincial Hospital in Opava in front of one of the hospital pavilions, 1930s

Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil (third from the left) among the Samaritans, 1920s

Postcard from Budkovice, the native village of Zdenka Pospíšilová's father Josef Vyskočil from 1910-1920

Zdenka Pospíšilová during the filming in 2023, stylized photo

Zdenka Pospíšilová during the filming in 2023, stylized photo

Zdenka Pospíšilová during the filming in 2023

Zdenka Pospíšilová during the filming in 2023