„Stanisław Zalewski a supraviețuit lagărelor de la Auschwitz, Mauthausen și Gusen ca prizonier politic. Regizoarea Magdalena Żelasko l-a însoțit atunci când s-a reîntors în acele locuri, l-a lăsat să-și spună povestea și i-a acordat timpul dorit pentru a-și transmite mesajul. Timp de trei ani, ea i-a fost alături în călătoriile sale, iar apoi i-a redat amintirile în mare parte cronologic, fără artificii dramaturgice. A adunat 100 de ore de material. În cele din urmă, acestea au devenit cele 100 de minute ale filmului.”

“If you’re looking for high gloss and grand staging à la Netflix, this film is not for you. And that’s a good thing, because Magdalena Żelasko simply lets her protagonist tell his story. He has a lot to say, even about comparatively banal things, such as how the prisoners in Auschwitz shared their daily bread in groups of five or how they were robbed of the most nutritious parts of the soup pot by the Kapos using a ladle trick. He also openly addresses the topic of sexuality, which was omnipresent in the camp. The film has its strongest moments in Gusen, of all places, which was forgotten for decades as a “satellite camp” of Mauthausen, where Zalewski was forced to participate in armaments production as a prisoner. The increasing emptiness of institutional Holocaust remembrance becomes too tangible there.”