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Żmijewski decided to persuade a former World War II concentration camp prisoner, a 92-year-old Jozef Tarnawa, to ‘renew’ his prisoner number, tattooed on the man’s forearm. In the memory of Tarnawa, the condition for survival necessitated by the extremely oppressive and restrictive environment was extreme conformity. And in the film such an act of conformism consent and subordination is repeated.