a great animation. a perfect lesson of history. an admirable tool for discover the past of a brave country. a model. and more. a model. not only for define in 9 minutes a fascinating and dramatic story of glory and sacrifices, fights and hope but for remind the force of love for fatherland. for admire the precision of details - characters, houses, churches, Copernic, Chopin silhouettes but, in same measure, dramatic . a film who has a lot of gifts. or virtues. or beauties. because Tomasz Baginski recreates an universal story presenting the past of his nation. because , after its end, you see again. searching understand significance of each scene. an admirable work. and an useful one. because it propose not exactly a national evolution. but a realistic portrait of a part of Europe who not forget its individuality.