The opening cue, “Kosmopolityczny-Wood” introduces the Cosmopolitan theme, a fun piece of jazz, with a bouncy trumpet line offset by an accordion, piano and stand-up bass, which introduces the main characters and their deft comedic natures.
The score is an interesting mix of contemporary jazz and large-scale science fiction action, which sounds like it shouldn’t work at all, but actually does. The wintry locations (this was filmed around Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia) certainly help.Ambassada is a Polish science fiction comedy film written and directed by Juliusz Machulski, about a young couple who move into a new apartment building, only to find that the building’s elevator is actually a time machine using the machine, the couple find themselves going back in time to the 1940s and coming face-to-face with none other than Adolf Hitler! Yes, it is a comedy – it stars Magdalena Grąziowska, Bartosz Porczyk and Robert Więckiewicz, and has a score by one of the young rising stars of Polish film music, Bartosz Chajdecki.
I found the movie interesting, though it is a bit overlong, it could have done with some trimming. Naturally, this movie has an anti-Russian tone, but as far as know no one can say that what is portrayed here is historically inaccurate. Many more things happen, especially after Germany invades the Soviet Union in 1941 and the Polish government in exile becomes nominally an ally of Russia. In the Gulag, the Poles are told to work in order to eat (mainly by felling trees around the camp) while they are treated very harshly by the guards, many of whom do not conceal their anti-Polish and anti-Semitic feelings. Interestingly, it wasn't that difficult to escape from the Gulag, security wasn't very high, but few people tried to escape since it was almost impossible to survive alone outside in the Taiga. (There are only a few movies set in the Gulag – one I remember is the interesting Russian movie "Krai" from some years ago). The Gulag wasn't Auschwitz, it wasn't an extermination camp, but it was very harsh, and many people die there from untreated illnesses and exposure to the elements. In Siberia, the Poles are settled in work camps, the infamous Gulag.
This film tells the story of a Polish family living in a small village in the east of Poland, who is deported to Siberia, in closed trains, with many other Poles, by the invading Russians. Then, a few weeks later, it was invaded from the East by the Soviet Union. In 1939, at the outset of the Second World War, Poland suffered a double invasion: first, at the beginning of September, it was invaded from the West by Nazi Germany.
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