A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN relates the romantic problems of an American GI and a Polish widow in post-WWII Europe. This 1984 Polish film (released in the US in 1985) won the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
Norman (Scott Wilson) is a GI stationed in Poland in 1946. Emilia (Maja Komorowska) is a Polish widow who lives in straitened circumstances with her ailing mother (Hanna Skarzanka). Although neither speaks the other's language, Norman and Emilia fall in love. He asks her to return with him to
America and, despite all manner of barriers set up by bureaucratic red tape and Emilia's indecisiveness, she agrees to go.
With the last of their sa...
Released:
1984
Rated:
PG
Length:
110 mins