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‘Leave No Traces’ Review: Police Brutality Triggers a Chain of Systemic Corruption in This Solemn Polish Procedural

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Guy Lodge Film Critic“Leave No Marks” would be a more apt translation from the Polish title of “Leave No Traces,” referring as it does to a horrifying command from one police officer to another, heard early on in this marathon fact-based drama: “Hit the stomach so you leave no marks, not on the back.” They’re in the middle of administering a merciless, unprovoked beating — a hard rain of combat boots and handheld batons — to a very soft target in 18-year-old student Grzegorz Przemyk, holding nothing back but acute physical evidence of their ire, even as the victim’s stunned best friend looks on.

Those missing marks, or traces, are only the first deception in the state’s protracted, punishing efforts to disprove what they know really.

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