Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive.
Direction
Piotrowski's unflinching Lenino battle reconstruction.
Acting
Damięcki and Łukaszewicz's tense class collision.

Director
Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during martial law, this was one of few Polish films to critically examine the romanticized Polish-Soviet wartime alliance.
The Lenino battle depicted was the first major engagement of Polish forces under Soviet command — and a strategic disaster whitewashed in communist historiography.