After seeing Duszejko, the police chief meets with Wnetzak, a local businessman, who gives the chief an ultimatum about money the chief owes him. Duszejko is questioned by the local police chief, to whom she makes complaints about her missing dogs which he dismisses. One night she is awakened by Magota, another neighbour, who informs her that Big Foot is dead. She confronts her neighbour who she calls "Big Foot", a notorious poacher in whose traps animals die in agony. Her dogs disappear one day while she is giving Nowina, a local woman, a ride to the store. The film is set in a remote mountainous region of the Kłodzko Valley in south-western Poland, where an eccentric elderly woman, Janina Duszejko, lives with her two dogs. The English title Spoor refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game. The Polish-language title, Pokot, is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear). It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Spoor ( Polish: Pokot) is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
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