Boy joins army for clout, accidentally learns imperialism is cringe.
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Acting
Pazura's face realizing he's the villain.
Production
Glorious cavalry charges that age badly emotionally.
Direction
Machulski makes war look pretty, then poison.
Director
Juliusz Machulski
Radosław Pazura
Jeremin
Janusz Gajos
Dobrowolski
Sergey Shakurov
Lieutenant Żuryn
Jan Machulski
Markowski
Franciszek Pieczka
Błażej
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Franek Bała
Tomasz Stockinger
Failleul
Wojciech Klata
Symcha
Jerzy Nowak
Lejba
Viktor Proskurin
doktor (w napisach: Wiktor Proskurin)
Aleksandr Berda
Krysa
Aleksander Bednarz
Petersilge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1863 January Uprising was Poland's largest against Russian rule; the film's Polish perspective on a Russian protagonist was controversial domestically.
Director Juliusz Machulski is primarily known for comedies; this rare drama starred his own son Jan in a small role as Markowski.
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