Tadeusz Gasienica-Giewont

A documentary about the charismatic life of Tadeusz Giewont, a mountain guide in Zakopane, Tatra rescuer, actor and musician, and violinist of the Tatra folk groups. The film shows the time of the September campaign in which the main character participated as a defender of Lvov from where he was sent to the camps, as well as post-war times of Tadeusz’s difficult and laborious job in the Tatra Voluntary Rescue Service. The story of legendary storyteller Tadeusz Giewont is a story of a world going away into oblivion…

A documentary re-enactment of an event in February 1945, when men from a Mountain Rescue Team -the Blue Cross of the title was their badge- in the Tatra Mountains in Poland, summoned by a Slovak doctor, crossed the mountains to rescue three badly wounded men, their nurse and a guard from an isolated hut near a German outpost. The characters were played by some of the original participants and amateur actors. It's a well-put together short film; the events almost entirely described by an omniscient commentator with a mixture of location and well-made re-enactment.