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03/10/1958 Drama, War, Romance 1h 43m
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Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers

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.

  1. Andrzej Wajda

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Zbigniew Cybulski

    Maciek Chełmicki

  2. Ewa Krzyżewska

    Krystyna Rozbicka

  3. Wacław Zastrzeżynski

    Szczuka

  4. Adam Pawlikowski

    Andrzej Kossecki

  5. Bogumił Kobiela

    Drewnowski

  6. Jan Ciecierski

    Porter

  7. Stanisław Milski

    Pieniążek

  8. Artur Młodnicki

    Kotowicz

  9. Halina Kwiatkowska

    Staniewiczowa

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Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by hand2a
Written by hand2a on 2025-01-22
My first Wajda and I really enjoyed it. I thought that Cybulski's performance was great and I loved the scene in the pub where he's lighting vodka shots, which he plays perfectly. The shots of him through the patterned staircase looked amazing in black and white, and especially because of his sunglasses. I did get a bit lost in the politics side of the plot but despite that I didn't get bored and I really liked the romance plot line and the sequence with the drunk secretary. I thought the blood coming through the sheet at the end was a really strong image and the final shot of him running thro...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Polish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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