| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 min.) |
| Series |
World history in video |
| Summary |
After the Second World War, a foreign soldier appears in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. The only clue to his provenance is a Polish army badge on his ragged sleeve. The man, who calls himself 'Alec', is something of an anomaly in Grantown-on-Spey, where chins wag at the slightest deviation from normality. Almost fifty years on, and 'Alec the Pole' is normality personified – a pillar of the community, with a family and his own construction firm. He chops firewood, plants potatoes and has acquired a broad Scots accent. But newly-laid roots are easily dug up: after forty-six years of silence, Alec can keep his secrets no longer. Confessing that he is really a Ukrainian national, who survived the Red Army occupation before serving in the German army, then deserting to fight for Poland, he now sets out with his daughter Val on a journey of rediscovery |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 13, 2015) |
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Previously released as DVD |
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In English |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Desertions
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Desertion, Military -- Ukraine
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Denton, Richard.
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Jones, Derek.
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British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Rapide Productions.
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