Wyrok na Franciszka Klosa (2000)

A town near Warsaw, the years of German occupation. Franciszek Klos is a blue policeman, distinguished by particular zeal in suppressing the Polish resistance movement and tracking down Jews. He would like to become a Volksdeutsche, but he cannot prove his German ancestry. Frustrated, he continues to get drunk, which further fuels his hatred towards his neighbors, partisans, and even his own family, although he has a wife with an angelic heart who can forgive her husband's greatest wickedness. His colleagues, Polish blue policemen from the same police station, stay away from him, seeing him as a sick and dangerous fanatic. The moral boundary beyond which Klos can no longer return turns out to be the moment when he kills a Pole for the first time. The underground sentences him and several other collaborators to death. Francis knows this. He lives in paranoid fear, but he does not stop killing Poles - Antifascists and Jews. He drinks more and more. One day he even goes to church to confess, but the enormity of his sins is beyond the understanding of the honest priest, who even gives him absolution. The underground carries out the first of the announced sentences. The Germans take revenge by executing a group of town residents. The partisans are trying to recapture them. During a shooting in the market square, Klos cooperates with the Germans. He kills everything that moves, even the innkeeper's seven-year-old daughter. The local SS commander decides to reward a loyal policeman. She "arranges" for him the Volksdeutsche documents he wanted. It seems to Klos that the whole world has opened to him. His wife leaves and his mother disowns him. A desperate policeman goes to the station bar for a drink of vodka. His rebellious behavior is observed by the resistance men. They decide to execute the sentence immediately.