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"Jan Ledóchowski has done something unprecedented"
Kurier Warszawski
"The film is definitely worth seeing" Puls Biznesu
Uncles & Others -
Jan Ledóchowski's Uncles & Others tell how their lives in Country Houses were changed forever by the Second World War. They had very different careers afterwards.
The Horodyńskis were massacred by the SS at a wedding party at their home, Zbydniów, on Midsummer Night, 1943.
After the horrors of the Second World War came the nightmare of the NKVD (later known as the KGB) and Stalinism. Landowners were class enemies.
Maciej "Matt" Morawski went to Paris, where his father Kajetan Morawski, a former Minister, was Ambassador of the Polish Government-in-Exile.
Matt became a journalist and worked for Radio Free Europe, broadcasting the truth about communism back to his compatriots in Poland.
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Countess Potocka (left), arrested by the NKVD (later KGB).
Prince Zdzisław Lubomirski (right), appointed Regent of Poland in 1917, declared Independence in October 1918.
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Kajetan Morawski, Head of Foreign Ministry in 1926, and Deputy Treasury Minister 1938-39, went with the Polish Government-in-Exile to Angers, France, and then to London. Ambassador to de Gaulle in Algiers from 1943. Remained as Exile Ambassador to Paris after the Communist take-over of Poland in 1945.
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A controversial film, shown several times in London and Warsaw, and also in Białystok, Gdańsk, Kraków, Paris, Poznań, Supraśl, Wrocław and Zielona Góra.
Little Village was confiscated by the communist regime afterwards and used as the country residence of Prime Ministers. 
Branded as "traitors and decadent landowners" after the War, everyone had to find new lives. 
Jurkowo, Kajetan's Estate near Poznań, is still in state hands. There are Council flats for 14 families.