• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1958-10-03
  • Runtime103 minutes
  • TaglineTouched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDrama, War, Romance
  • Production
    CompaniesZespół Filmowy Kadr
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Casts

Zbigniew Cybulski

Ewa Krzyżewska

Wacław Zastrzeżynski

Adam Pawlikowski

Bogumił Kobiela

Jan Ciecierski

Stanisław Milski

Artur Młodnicki

Halina Kwiatkowska

Ignacy Machowski

Zbigniew Skowroński

Barbara Krafftówna

Aleksander Sewruk

Zofia Czerwińska

Irena Orzecka

Grażyna Staniszewska

Adolf Chronicki

Wiktor Grotowicz

Mieczysław Łoza

Tadeusz Kalinowski

Ferdynand Matysik

Józef Pieracki