Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
Direction
Passendorfer's documentary-style urgency, shot in actual Warsaw locations.
Acting
Tadeusz Łomnicki's Marek: idealism curdling into something harder.
Director
Jerzy Passendorfer
Bożena Kurowska
Marta
Grażyna Staniszewska
Krysia
Andrzej Kostenko
The Big
Roman Kłosowski
The Little
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Marek
Andrzej May
Kazik "Czarny"
Stanisław Mikulski
Jacek
Jerzy Nasierowski
Kajtek
Jerzy Pichelski
"Doctor Maks"
Wojciech Siemion
"Ryś"
Michał Szewczyk
"Eagle"
Tomasz Zaliwski
Olek
Halina Drohocka
"Czarny's Mother"
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot partially in the actual sewers used by the real resistance — some cast members were survivors who'd hidden there.
Released during Poland's thaw after 1956, it tested how far communist censors would let war films criticize occupation-era moral complexity.
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