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5.6/10 IMDb Music by Richard G. Mitchell Director Robert Gliński Music director Richard G. Mitchell | 6.4/10 Filmweb Directed by Robert Gliński Cinematography Jacek Petrycki Story by Günter Grass | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Regina Ziegler, Elke Ried, Ursual Vossen, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Henryk Romanowski Written by Klaus Richter, Pawel Huelle and Cezary Harasimowicz (based on the book by Günter Grass) Starring Matthias Habich, Krystyna Janda Initial release 22 September 2005 (Germany) Screenplay Cezary Harasimowicz, Paweł Huelle, Klaus Richter Cast Krystyna Janda, Matthias Habich, Marek Kondrat, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Udo Samel Similar Hi Tessa, All That Really Matters, Weiser, Piggies, Love Me and Do Whatever | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Call of the Toad is a film released in 2005 that tells the love story between a German man and a Polish woman who become caught up in the advent of modern capitalism in Poland. It is based on the novel The Call of the Toad written by Günter Grass.
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In Gdańsk, Poland, in 1989, Alexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska first meet on their way to a cemetery. Both are survivors from the end of World War II when many people from Poland and Germany were displaced as borders were re-drawn according to new treaties.
But they discover that displacement and war is not all they have in common. They have both been widowed and due of their upheaval - they share the belief that survivors such as themselves should have the right to be returned home for burial.
As their love affair grows, their ambitions become entwined. The pair establishes a Cemetery of Reconciliation to show that old hatreds are now dead. They form a company that arranges for survivors to be buried in their original country but as the money rolls in, their good intentions are corrupted.