Trzecia czesc nocy (The Third Part of the Night) (1971)
It starts out with a recitation from the book of Revelation. The end-times. Set in Poland during WWII, for its characters, these are the end-times. After a young Polish man loses his wife, mother, and son to German soldiers, he joins an underground rebellion group. Through this, he happens to meet a woman that looks exactly like his wife, and a strange, (as much as I hate this word, it's appropriate here->) Kafkaesque journey through life in war-torn Poland unravels onscreen. Writer/director Andrzej Zulawski (
Possession, 1981) bases key points on the story of his father, and tells his story with a subversive, gritty touch, and it plays out like a fevered dream, shifting through reality, flashbacks, and visions.
Excellent, politically-charged, apocalyptic cinema.