The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Acting
Garlicki's Dembowski: passionate, naive, absolutely doomed.
Direction
Różewicz stages revolution as suffocating chamber drama.
Director
Stanisław Różewicz
Piotr Garlicki
Edward Dembowski
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Jan Józef Tyssowski
Bolesław Smela
Jakub Szela
Wojciech Alaborski
Wiesiołowski
Henryk Machalica
Smollka
Mieczysław Hryniewicz
Kalinka
Mieczysław Voit
Wolski
Henryk Bista
stranger claiming to be Dembowski
Anna Dymna
Magdalena Kaszycka
Stanisław Igar
Professor Wiszniewski
Andrzej Szczepkowski
Count Wodzicki
Marek Siudym
Father Piotr
Leonard Andrzejewski
Arkadiusz Bazak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Kraków Uprising lasted nine days and was the last purely Polish insurrection until 1918 — the film captures this fatal brevity.
Director Różewicz deliberately avoided battle scenes to focus on political paralysis, making this an anti-epic that guts romantic revolutionary mythology.
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