Czułe miejsce pamięci. "Róża" Wojtka Smarzowskiego

The basis for this article is the film Róża (Rose), directed by Wojtek Smarzowski. The author reads the aforementioned film as a historic tale of the ‘Recovered Territories’ (territories that became part of Poland after the Second World War), and, at the same time, the representation of the Other, post-war autochthonic experience of Masurians. Where, in the memory discourse, does the film place Masurians? In what way does it bring their tragic history back to the Polish collective memory? Who benefits from recovering this collective memory? Whilst searching for answers, the author uses the notion of melodrama as a sorting key for cinema image notions.