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
Damian Damięcki
Paweł
Andrzej Wojaczek
Ernest
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Andrzej
Janusz Bylczyński
Chief Officer
Anna Nehrebecka
Zosia
Maria Klejdysz
Praksowia Iwanowna
Barbara Rachwalska
Ernest's Mother
Wirgiliusz Gryń
Serafin
Jerzy Janeczek
Ensign Konstanty
Andrzej Kopiczyński
Lieutenant
Ryszard Kotys
Józek
Jan Bógdoł
Ernest's Father
Halina Buyno-Łoza
Doctor
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.
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