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* RuleOfSymbolism: The thee-legged dog, which seems to be BornLucky despite lacking a front paw, shows up from time to time, during the happier moments. [[spoiler: And later turns up dead...]]
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* WrongAssumption: When Róża won't allow Tadeusz to wash her when she's bed-ridden and needs constant washing due to [[spoiler: recovering from a miscarriage]], he assumes it's about modesty; turns out [[spoiler: Róża wanted to call her daughter, who was hiding in the attic]].
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* WrongAssumption: When Róża won't allow Tadeusz to wash her when she's bed-ridden and needs constant washing due to [[spoiler: recovering from a miscarriage]], he assumes it's about modesty; turns out [[spoiler: Róża wanted to call her daughter, who was hiding in the attic]].attic]].
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''Róża'' (Rose) is a 2011 Polish film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. It depicts the love story of a Masurian woman and a soldier of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Army Armia Krajowa]] in postwar Masuria.
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* AlreadyMetEveryone: [[spoiler: Tadeusz and Liliwa are good friends from AK and maybe even from before the war. And after playing stupid for a while, Tadeusz admits that he too remembers Kazik from an AK-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armia_Ludowa AL]] meeting back in '43]].
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* RomancingTheWidow: Initially, the only reason Tadeusz, himself a newly widowed man, tried to find Róża was to deliver her the personal belongings of her late husband - [[LastRequest something he was asked for by Johann]]. Then he stays around to help Róża with the farm. Then they fall for each other, trying to find solace in the post-war mess they have to face without their spouses.
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* DeterminedWidow: Deconstructed - Róża might be tought as a nail, but that won't gain her anything.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When they end up fighting [[spoiler: Tadeusz chops Vasyl into thick slices. [[AnAxeToGrind Literally]]]].
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When they end up fighting [[spoiler: Tadeusz chops Vasyl into thick slices. [[AnAxeToGrind Literally]]]].Literally]].
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* SpoilerCover: One of the two posters clearly showed [[spoiler: Jadwiga, taking the boat ride with Róża and Tadeusz]]. While by itself it lack context, it still comes as a massive spoiler right from the start of the film.
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* AlreadyMetEveryone: [[spoiler: Tadeusz and Liliwa are good friends from AK and maybe even from before the war. And after playing stupid for a while, Tadeusz admits that he too remembers Kazik from an AK-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armia_Ludowa AL]] meeting back in '43]].
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* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Róża admits she has no idea why, when carrying the dead body away from the house, the custom dictates to leave an axe on the doorstep.
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* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Róża admits she has no idea why, when carrying the dead body away from out of the house, the custom dictates to leave an axe on the doorstep.
* NoodleIncident: The only family Tadeusz still has is his uncle. He's now in [[spoiler: Verkhoyansk. Which means Soviets send him to gulag there, but the reason is never stated]] and he's only mentioned once.
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* ShowDontTell: Oftentimes, rather than using dialogue-based exposition, a background event happens just to establish the grim situation of the post-war Mazuria.
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* SnowMeansDeath: And ''how''. People start dying left and right once winter begins. Also, there's a flashback to winter of '44 and Soviet conquest of Mazuria - it ain't pretty.
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* MeaningfulNAme: Tadeusz surname is Mazur, meaning "from Masuria".
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-->'''Róża:''' [[spoiler: Go to the attic and call Jadwiga. She's my daughter]].
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The black market trader showing up during Tadeusz investigation... and taking it over as the head of local Bureau of Security]].
-->'''Róża:''' [[spoiler: Go to the attic and call Jadwiga. She's my daughter]].
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The black market trader showing up during Tadeusz investigation... and taking it over as the head of local Bureau of Security]].
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Kazik is utterly incapable of compassion, on just about any level. Moreover, he apparently [[{{Sadist}} takes personal pleasure in tormenting everyone]], especially Tadeusz. This makes him a perfect [[StateSec UB officer]]. Eventually Tadeusz flat-out calls him out on this. "human carrion".
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Kazik is utterly incapable of compassion, on just about any level. Moreover, he apparently [[{{Sadist}} takes personal pleasure in tormenting everyone]], especially Tadeusz. This makes him a perfect [[StateSec UB officer]]. Eventually Tadeusz flat-out calls him out on this. "human carrion".
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* AngerBornOfWorry: PlayedForLaughs when Róża blows her top off at Tadeusz. [[spoiler: He's demining the field she owns, while she mends his clothes back home. Suddenly, massive explosion shatters the windows and Róża runs alarmed to the last place she saw Tadeusz, looking around for his body. Turns out he has intentionally detonated a landmine he couldn't disarm, so she starts screaming at him, in German, apparently ''completely oblivious she slipped to another language'']]. After which she tells him to come in for dinner before it gets cold.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Probably just an error, but the Soviet major is billed as a colonel during end titles, despite wearing very distinctive insignia.
* BlackComedy: Tadeusz and Władek need to [[spoiler: find a leg that got blown off from one of the looters to hide the body]] before any sort of authorities show up.
* BrickJoke: Despite his best efforts, the bicycle does get stolen from Tadeusz. But, much later, he meets the black market trader again, who's riding that very bike. [[spoiler: After sharing a laugh over it, [[PetTheDog Tadeusz gets the bike back for free]]]].
* BrutalHonesty: Liliwa, the doctor, very bluntly informs Tadeusz that [[spoiler: Róża will die and Jadwiga will get deported - this is an attempt to convince his friend to flee before the Bureau of Security gets him]]. It doesn't work, but Tadeusz also doesn't mind being chewed out, has been fully aware of these things all the while, and he finds Liliwa's concern touching.
* TheBrute: Vasyl, the Russian soldier[=/=]looter[=/=]settler, an useful "muscle" for local authorities to terrorise the locals with.
* CassandraTruth: The dollars have been found. That's the entire truth.
* ChekhovsArmoury: In an almost literal form: Tadeusz finds a crashed German [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kubelwagen Kübelwagen]]. At first he only picks up a small stash of dollars that helps him with various tasks, but afterwards he returns for a rifle, a scope for it and a pistol, each serving different purpose later in the story.
* ChekhovsLecture: Róża makes one about Masurian funeral traditions. [[spoiler: Tadeusz uses it when preparing for her funeral. He also uses a hatchet to kill Vasyl, following Róża's guess about what the axe is for in the tradition]].
-->'''Róża:''' To kill evil?
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** The looter who gets his leg blown off by a landmine.
** [[spoiler: The brutal, dragged-out murder of Vasyl, who is eventually ''chopped into pieces'' by enraged Tadeusz]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Tadeusz has his moments, most importantly when drinking with Kazik.
-->'''Tadeusz''': If I were a "class enemy", I would be blowing up bridges, not demining farmland.
* DeterminedWidow: Deconstructed - Róża might be tought as a nail, but that won't gain her anything.
* DirtyCoward: Władek, whose level of courage is always a notch too low.
* TheDogBitesBack: Róża eventually takes her chance and [[spoiler: stabs Vasyl, saving Tadeusz in the process]].
* DramaticIrony:
** All the Masurians who stay in their homes rather than escaping, try to keep their steads and fatherland, go through all sorts of humiliaition, persecution and even random lynches and manhunts... [[spoiler: still get deported in the end]].
** The only gynecologist in the area is a Soviet major, trying to help in a situation caused by his own army.
* DrowningMySorrows: Again, Władek, who just can't cope with the whole post-war mess.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kazik, the [[StateSec ubek]] in glasses sits in the back of the rover that's delivering the Soviet captain when the Masurians are begging the local commisair for food.
* FamedInStory:After he demines this field, Tadeusz gains notoriety as "the local sapper".
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: Tadeusz might probably stand a chance - or get at least some extra time - against UB investigation, if he never went for that beer in the bar and met Kazik]].
* ForcedToWatch:
** Tadeusz watches his wife being raped and murdered. Not only he's too weak from his wounds to do anything about it, but has to [[PlayingPossum pretend he's dead already]].
** [[spoiler: Jadwiga more than once has to watch, or at least listen, to her mother being raped and must always pretend she's not even there, hiding from the rapists on Róża's insistance]].
* ForegoneConclusion: The Masurians will get eventually deported as "Germans". Then again, considering that Poland [[DayOfTheJackboot was entering the Stalinist period]], maybe they were better off leaving.
** On meta-level, Smarzowski's, the director, doesn't do {{Happy Ending}}s.
* ForeignLanguageTirade: For the entire movie, Róża speaks Polish. The only time she lapses into German happens when she rants at Tadeusz for AngerBornOfWorry reasons.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Kazik is utterly incapable of compassion, on just about any level. Moreover, he apparently [[{{Sadist}} takes personal pleasure in tormenting everyone]], especially Tadeusz. This makes him a perfect [[StateSec UB officer]]. Eventually Tadeusz flat-out calls him out on this. "human carrion".
* FreezeFrameBonus: Liliwa [[spoiler: also ends up in the torture dungeon. He doesn't make it]].
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: A helpful, cheerful guy that can [[TheScrounger organise whatever you need]] for a handful of dollars. [[spoiler: Except he's secretly the head of local StateSec and only running this operation to gather intel and secure outflow of foreign currency]].
* GoodFeelsGood: An important motivation for Tadeusz.
* GoodTimesMontage:
** The very brief flashback of pre-war village fair.
** Tadeusz taking [[spoiler: Róża and Jadwiga]] for a boat ride and a small picnic.
* GreatOffscreenWar: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is just wrapping up. The first scene takes place during the Warsaw Uprising.
* GreenEyedMonster: Vasyl is obssessed with Róża and just can't stand the possibility of other men having her - even if he himself [[{{Hypocrite}} rapes her any given chance]] and doesn't understand what "no" means.
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Jadwiga, who is alive and well. Tadeusz doesn't realise she's even there despite living in the house for few days, or maybe even weeks. Other than him, an ''entire Soviet garrison stationed on the farm'' never noticed, either.]].
* HonorBeforeReason: A major characteristic for Tadeusz. He's perfectly aware just how deep in shit he is, but he simply can't stop himself from doing the morally good thing, even if all it accomplishes is more suffering for himself.
* HopeSpot: When Władek shows up for the first time, it seems like the situation might possibly be stabilising. [[spoiler: Then, when Vasyl is finally killed, Tadeusz assumes all their worries are over]].
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler: When Tadeusz marries Jadwiga, he imagines Róża in her place]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: At one point Tadeusz ends up fending off two looters with a makeshift spear he was using for mine sweeping.
* LastRequest: [[spoiler: Róża asks Tadeusz to marry her daughter and grant her citizenship this way]].
* MadeOfIron: Downplayed with Vasyl, as [[spoiler: neither Róża nor Jadwiga know ''how'' to kill]], so he survives a knife stab and being shot, but when [[spoiler: Tadeusz gets at him with a hatchet, he's brutally murdered in a couple of quick chops]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After [[spoiler: wiping out what's left of Vasyl's gang]], Tadeusz blows up their truck, making it look like a fatal crash while carrying munitions.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Róża admits she has no idea why, when carrying the dead body away from the house, the custom dictates to leave an axe on the doorstep.
* ManlyTears: When Tadeusz learns [[spoiler: Róża's condition is untreatable. He stays out in the cold, autumn storm to pretend it's not his tears, but the rain going down his face, all the while crying like a baby]].
* MarriageOfConvenience: Tadeusz ends up [[spoiler: marrying Jadwiga]], so she can gain Polish citizenship. [[spoiler: The final scene strongly suggests a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage]].
* MeaningfulNAme: Tadeusz surname is Mazur, meaning "from Masuria".
* MistakenForSpies: Done ''deliberately'' by the interrogators, who want to [[spoiler: humiliate Tadeusz as much as possible for his past in the AK, adding to it charges of being an anti-Polish spy and a saboteur on Western payroll]].
* MoodWhiplash: Each and every bright spot is almost instantly followed by horrible things happening.
* MyGreatestFailure: Tadeusz has more than one reason to stick for Róża:
** He let Anna, his wife, to be raped and murdered right in front of him and his only option back then was PlayingPossum.
** It's implied Tadeusz was the one who killed Johann, Róża's husband.
* NewOldWest: Not exactly modern setting, but still checks all the other boxes.
* NoNameGiven: While Julian is named in story, the credits just call him "Władek's son". Played absolutely straight with Władek's daughter who isn't named at all. Certain characters are nameless in-story and we only [[AllThereInTheScript learn their names from the credits]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When they end up fighting [[spoiler: Tadeusz chops Vasyl into thick slices. [[AnAxeToGrind Literally]]]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Suprisingly averted. Turns out [[spoiler: that blond {{Slimeball}} was in fact the WhiteSheep of the local StateSec and genuinely tried to help Tadeusz's cause from the start]].
* ProperlyParanoid: In preparation for the next wave of looters and rapists, Tadeusz ''creates a minefield'' on the courtyard of the stead. [[spoiler: It ends up ripping one of the looters into bloody pieces and scaring away all the rest]].
* RRatedOpening: The opening scene depicts a ''rape'', directly followed by murder of the victim. And yet, compared with what happens later in the story, it's rather tame.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: TheMovie.
* RedHerring: Tadeusz explains to Róża how to use a handgun [[spoiler: but it's Jadwiga who shoots Vasyl]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Both Róża for Tadeusz and Tadeusz for Róża, replacing their respective spouses.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The thee-legged dog, which seems to be BornLucky despite lacking a front paw, shows up from time to time, during the happier moments. [[spoiler: And later turns up dead...]]
* RunningGag: This one window that gets shattered by explosions. Repeatedly.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Modus operandi for Tadeusz. This eventually leads to [[spoiler: capture, torture and getting turned into a wreck by the StateSec]].
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: Róża, because of having been raped so many times and the complications from a rape-induced miscarriage]].
* SettlingTheFrontier: In the most inhuman way possible, by pretending that the locals have suddenly changed nationality. Raping, looting and destroying everything that hasn't already been claimed by the war ensues.
* ShowDontTell: Oftentimes, rather than using dialogue-based exposition, a background event happens just to establish the grim situation of the post-war Mazuria.
* SignatureStyle: Extreme violence, diluted colours, rarely applied yet haunting music and [[spoiler: extremely Bittersweet Ending one step away from outright downer]], all so characteristic for Smarzowski.
* SilenceIsGolden: Countless moments Tadeusz shares with Róża, not speaking a word.
* SnowMeansDeath: And ''how''. People start dying left and right once winter begins. Also, there's a flashback to winter of '44 and Soviet conquest of Mazuria - it ain't pretty.
* TakeAThirdOption: Defied. During small talk, Kazik says the options are either deportation of Masurians or not settling Mazury with Poles. When Tadeusz suggest taking a third option and simply live together, the UB officer laughs in his face for [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids being such naive idealist, rather than understanding realpolitik]].
* TimeSkip: When [[spoiler: Tadeusz is finally released by StateSec]], it can be anything from autumn '46 to '48, where the last deportation happened.
* {{Tomboy}}: [[spoiler: Jadwiga, who acts and looks the part]]. Even when she wears girly clothes, she is still a tough farmgirl.
* UngratefulBastard: Downplayed with Władek, who is more of hindrance than any help to Tadeusz throughout the movie and eventually [[spoiler: returns with his family to take the farm over, but doesn't throw Jadwiga out (he easily could) nor tries to interfere when Tadeusz returns]].
* VodkaDrunkenski: The Russian corporal who rustles farm animals downs ''half a bottle of vodka'' as if it were water.
* WarIsHell: The movie focuses on the worst aspects of it - the [[RapePillageAndBurn abuse of civilians, rape and violation of basic human decency]] by the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets victors]], along with {{Dehumanization}} of the local populace as "class enemies".
* WrongAssumption: When Róża won't allow Tadeusz to wash her when she's bed-ridden and needs constant washing due to [[spoiler: recovering from a miscarriage]], he assumes it's about modesty; turns out [[spoiler: Róża wanted to call her daughter, who was hiding in the attic]].
* AngerBornOfWorry: PlayedForLaughs when Róża blows her top off at Tadeusz. [[spoiler: He's demining the field she owns, while she mends his clothes back home. Suddenly, massive explosion shatters the windows and Róża runs alarmed to the last place she saw Tadeusz, looking around for his body. Turns out he has intentionally detonated a landmine he couldn't disarm, so she starts screaming at him, in German, apparently ''completely oblivious she slipped to another language'']]. After which she tells him to come in for dinner before it gets cold.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Probably just an error, but the Soviet major is billed as a colonel during end titles, despite wearing very distinctive insignia.
* BlackComedy: Tadeusz and Władek need to [[spoiler: find a leg that got blown off from one of the looters to hide the body]] before any sort of authorities show up.
* BrickJoke: Despite his best efforts, the bicycle does get stolen from Tadeusz. But, much later, he meets the black market trader again, who's riding that very bike. [[spoiler: After sharing a laugh over it, [[PetTheDog Tadeusz gets the bike back for free]]]].
* BrutalHonesty: Liliwa, the doctor, very bluntly informs Tadeusz that [[spoiler: Róża will die and Jadwiga will get deported - this is an attempt to convince his friend to flee before the Bureau of Security gets him]]. It doesn't work, but Tadeusz also doesn't mind being chewed out, has been fully aware of these things all the while, and he finds Liliwa's concern touching.
* TheBrute: Vasyl, the Russian soldier[=/=]looter[=/=]settler, an useful "muscle" for local authorities to terrorise the locals with.
* CassandraTruth: The dollars have been found. That's the entire truth.
* ChekhovsArmoury: In an almost literal form: Tadeusz finds a crashed German [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kubelwagen Kübelwagen]]. At first he only picks up a small stash of dollars that helps him with various tasks, but afterwards he returns for a rifle, a scope for it and a pistol, each serving different purpose later in the story.
* ChekhovsLecture: Róża makes one about Masurian funeral traditions. [[spoiler: Tadeusz uses it when preparing for her funeral. He also uses a hatchet to kill Vasyl, following Róża's guess about what the axe is for in the tradition]].
-->'''Róża:''' To kill evil?
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** The looter who gets his leg blown off by a landmine.
** [[spoiler: The brutal, dragged-out murder of Vasyl, who is eventually ''chopped into pieces'' by enraged Tadeusz]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Tadeusz has his moments, most importantly when drinking with Kazik.
-->'''Tadeusz''': If I were a "class enemy", I would be blowing up bridges, not demining farmland.
* DeterminedWidow: Deconstructed - Róża might be tought as a nail, but that won't gain her anything.
* DirtyCoward: Władek, whose level of courage is always a notch too low.
* TheDogBitesBack: Róża eventually takes her chance and [[spoiler: stabs Vasyl, saving Tadeusz in the process]].
* DramaticIrony:
** All the Masurians who stay in their homes rather than escaping, try to keep their steads and fatherland, go through all sorts of humiliaition, persecution and even random lynches and manhunts... [[spoiler: still get deported in the end]].
** The only gynecologist in the area is a Soviet major, trying to help in a situation caused by his own army.
* DrowningMySorrows: Again, Władek, who just can't cope with the whole post-war mess.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kazik, the [[StateSec ubek]] in glasses sits in the back of the rover that's delivering the Soviet captain when the Masurians are begging the local commisair for food.
* FamedInStory:After he demines this field, Tadeusz gains notoriety as "the local sapper".
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: Tadeusz might probably stand a chance - or get at least some extra time - against UB investigation, if he never went for that beer in the bar and met Kazik]].
* ForcedToWatch:
** Tadeusz watches his wife being raped and murdered. Not only he's too weak from his wounds to do anything about it, but has to [[PlayingPossum pretend he's dead already]].
** [[spoiler: Jadwiga more than once has to watch, or at least listen, to her mother being raped and must always pretend she's not even there, hiding from the rapists on Róża's insistance]].
* ForegoneConclusion: The Masurians will get eventually deported as "Germans". Then again, considering that Poland [[DayOfTheJackboot was entering the Stalinist period]], maybe they were better off leaving.
** On meta-level, Smarzowski's, the director, doesn't do {{Happy Ending}}s.
* ForeignLanguageTirade: For the entire movie, Róża speaks Polish. The only time she lapses into German happens when she rants at Tadeusz for AngerBornOfWorry reasons.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Kazik is utterly incapable of compassion, on just about any level. Moreover, he apparently [[{{Sadist}} takes personal pleasure in tormenting everyone]], especially Tadeusz. This makes him a perfect [[StateSec UB officer]]. Eventually Tadeusz flat-out calls him out on this. "human carrion".
* FreezeFrameBonus: Liliwa [[spoiler: also ends up in the torture dungeon. He doesn't make it]].
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: A helpful, cheerful guy that can [[TheScrounger organise whatever you need]] for a handful of dollars. [[spoiler: Except he's secretly the head of local StateSec and only running this operation to gather intel and secure outflow of foreign currency]].
* GoodFeelsGood: An important motivation for Tadeusz.
* GoodTimesMontage:
** The very brief flashback of pre-war village fair.
** Tadeusz taking [[spoiler: Róża and Jadwiga]] for a boat ride and a small picnic.
* GreatOffscreenWar: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is just wrapping up. The first scene takes place during the Warsaw Uprising.
* GreenEyedMonster: Vasyl is obssessed with Róża and just can't stand the possibility of other men having her - even if he himself [[{{Hypocrite}} rapes her any given chance]] and doesn't understand what "no" means.
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: Jadwiga, who is alive and well. Tadeusz doesn't realise she's even there despite living in the house for few days, or maybe even weeks. Other than him, an ''entire Soviet garrison stationed on the farm'' never noticed, either.]].
* HonorBeforeReason: A major characteristic for Tadeusz. He's perfectly aware just how deep in shit he is, but he simply can't stop himself from doing the morally good thing, even if all it accomplishes is more suffering for himself.
* HopeSpot: When Władek shows up for the first time, it seems like the situation might possibly be stabilising. [[spoiler: Then, when Vasyl is finally killed, Tadeusz assumes all their worries are over]].
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler: When Tadeusz marries Jadwiga, he imagines Róża in her place]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: At one point Tadeusz ends up fending off two looters with a makeshift spear he was using for mine sweeping.
* LastRequest: [[spoiler: Róża asks Tadeusz to marry her daughter and grant her citizenship this way]].
* MadeOfIron: Downplayed with Vasyl, as [[spoiler: neither Róża nor Jadwiga know ''how'' to kill]], so he survives a knife stab and being shot, but when [[spoiler: Tadeusz gets at him with a hatchet, he's brutally murdered in a couple of quick chops]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After [[spoiler: wiping out what's left of Vasyl's gang]], Tadeusz blows up their truck, making it look like a fatal crash while carrying munitions.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Róża admits she has no idea why, when carrying the dead body away from the house, the custom dictates to leave an axe on the doorstep.
* ManlyTears: When Tadeusz learns [[spoiler: Róża's condition is untreatable. He stays out in the cold, autumn storm to pretend it's not his tears, but the rain going down his face, all the while crying like a baby]].
* MarriageOfConvenience: Tadeusz ends up [[spoiler: marrying Jadwiga]], so she can gain Polish citizenship. [[spoiler: The final scene strongly suggests a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage]].
* MeaningfulNAme: Tadeusz surname is Mazur, meaning "from Masuria".
* MistakenForSpies: Done ''deliberately'' by the interrogators, who want to [[spoiler: humiliate Tadeusz as much as possible for his past in the AK, adding to it charges of being an anti-Polish spy and a saboteur on Western payroll]].
* MoodWhiplash: Each and every bright spot is almost instantly followed by horrible things happening.
* MyGreatestFailure: Tadeusz has more than one reason to stick for Róża:
** He let Anna, his wife, to be raped and murdered right in front of him and his only option back then was PlayingPossum.
** It's implied Tadeusz was the one who killed Johann, Róża's husband.
* NewOldWest: Not exactly modern setting, but still checks all the other boxes.
* NoNameGiven: While Julian is named in story, the credits just call him "Władek's son". Played absolutely straight with Władek's daughter who isn't named at all. Certain characters are nameless in-story and we only [[AllThereInTheScript learn their names from the credits]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When they end up fighting [[spoiler: Tadeusz chops Vasyl into thick slices. [[AnAxeToGrind Literally]]]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Suprisingly averted. Turns out [[spoiler: that blond {{Slimeball}} was in fact the WhiteSheep of the local StateSec and genuinely tried to help Tadeusz's cause from the start]].
* ProperlyParanoid: In preparation for the next wave of looters and rapists, Tadeusz ''creates a minefield'' on the courtyard of the stead. [[spoiler: It ends up ripping one of the looters into bloody pieces and scaring away all the rest]].
* RRatedOpening: The opening scene depicts a ''rape'', directly followed by murder of the victim. And yet, compared with what happens later in the story, it's rather tame.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: TheMovie.
* RedHerring: Tadeusz explains to Róża how to use a handgun [[spoiler: but it's Jadwiga who shoots Vasyl]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Both Róża for Tadeusz and Tadeusz for Róża, replacing their respective spouses.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The thee-legged dog, which seems to be BornLucky despite lacking a front paw, shows up from time to time, during the happier moments. [[spoiler: And later turns up dead...]]
* RunningGag: This one window that gets shattered by explosions. Repeatedly.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Modus operandi for Tadeusz. This eventually leads to [[spoiler: capture, torture and getting turned into a wreck by the StateSec]].
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: Róża, because of having been raped so many times and the complications from a rape-induced miscarriage]].
* SettlingTheFrontier: In the most inhuman way possible, by pretending that the locals have suddenly changed nationality. Raping, looting and destroying everything that hasn't already been claimed by the war ensues.
* ShowDontTell: Oftentimes, rather than using dialogue-based exposition, a background event happens just to establish the grim situation of the post-war Mazuria.
* SignatureStyle: Extreme violence, diluted colours, rarely applied yet haunting music and [[spoiler: extremely Bittersweet Ending one step away from outright downer]], all so characteristic for Smarzowski.
* SilenceIsGolden: Countless moments Tadeusz shares with Róża, not speaking a word.
* SnowMeansDeath: And ''how''. People start dying left and right once winter begins. Also, there's a flashback to winter of '44 and Soviet conquest of Mazuria - it ain't pretty.
* TakeAThirdOption: Defied. During small talk, Kazik says the options are either deportation of Masurians or not settling Mazury with Poles. When Tadeusz suggest taking a third option and simply live together, the UB officer laughs in his face for [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids being such naive idealist, rather than understanding realpolitik]].
* TimeSkip: When [[spoiler: Tadeusz is finally released by StateSec]], it can be anything from autumn '46 to '48, where the last deportation happened.
* {{Tomboy}}: [[spoiler: Jadwiga, who acts and looks the part]]. Even when she wears girly clothes, she is still a tough farmgirl.
* UngratefulBastard: Downplayed with Władek, who is more of hindrance than any help to Tadeusz throughout the movie and eventually [[spoiler: returns with his family to take the farm over, but doesn't throw Jadwiga out (he easily could) nor tries to interfere when Tadeusz returns]].
* VodkaDrunkenski: The Russian corporal who rustles farm animals downs ''half a bottle of vodka'' as if it were water.
* WarIsHell: The movie focuses on the worst aspects of it - the [[RapePillageAndBurn abuse of civilians, rape and violation of basic human decency]] by the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets victors]], along with {{Dehumanization}} of the local populace as "class enemies".
* WrongAssumption: When Róża won't allow Tadeusz to wash her when she's bed-ridden and needs constant washing due to [[spoiler: recovering from a miscarriage]], he assumes it's about modesty; turns out [[spoiler: Róża wanted to call her daughter, who was hiding in the attic]].
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'''Róża''' (Rose) is a 2011 Polish film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. It depicts the love story of a Masurian woman and a soldier of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Army Armia Krajowa]] in postwar Masuria.
In summer 1945 Tadeusz Mazur, a former soldier and veteran of Warsaw Uprising, moves to Masuria, a region in former German East Prussia, which became part of Poland as a result of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement Potsdam Agreement]] after World War II. He's searching for Róża Kwiatkowska, a widow of a German Wehrmacht soldier whose death Tadeusz had witnessed, to hand over her husband’s possessions. Róża reluctantly invites Tadeusz to stay at her farm to protect her against marauders and the brutal rapes she had previously experienced during the Soviet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussian_Offensive East Prussian Offensive]] and in the lawless atmosphere of postwar Masuria. From this partnership of purpose, slowly respect and love arises - a relationship frowned upon and attracting the unwelcome attention of the new Polish nationalists as well as the [[StateSec Soviet NKVD and Polish Bureau of Security]].
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In summer 1945 Tadeusz Mazur, a former soldier and veteran of Warsaw Uprising, moves to Masuria, a region in former German East Prussia, which became part of Poland as a result of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement Potsdam Agreement]] after World War II. He's searching for Róża Kwiatkowska, a widow of a German Wehrmacht soldier whose death Tadeusz had witnessed, to hand over her husband’s possessions. Róża reluctantly invites Tadeusz to stay at her farm to protect her against marauders and the brutal rapes she had previously experienced during the Soviet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussian_Offensive East Prussian Offensive]] and in the lawless atmosphere of postwar Masuria. From this partnership of purpose, slowly respect and love arises - a relationship frowned upon and attracting the unwelcome attention of the new Polish nationalists as well as the [[StateSec Soviet NKVD and Polish Bureau of Security]].
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