Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
Acting
Grzymkowski's Wyszyński: granite conviction with flickers of doubt.
Production
Communist-era Warsaw recreated with suffocating bureaucratic detail.
Director
Michał Kondrat
Sławomir Grzymkowski
Stefan Wyszyński
Adam Ferency
Władysław Gomułka
Marcin Troński
Józef Cyrankiewicz
Katarzyna Zawadzka
Magda
Michał Meyer
Janek
Tomasz Sapryk
Zenon Kliszko
Artur Krajewski
Antoni Baraniak
Andrzej Niemyt
Karol Wojtyła
Małgorzata Buczkowska
Maria Okońska
Tadeusz Chudecki
Zygmunt Choromański
Bartosz Obuchowicz
Zdzich
Aleksander Janiszewski
censor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wyszyński remains Poland's 'Primate of the Millennium' — this film premiered during 2022 tensions over church-state divisions, making its heroic framing politically loaded.
Director Kondrat previously made religious documentaries; this was his first dramatic feature, shot partly in actual communist-era locations scheduled for demolition.
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