Polonia Restituta

Drama, History · 1981

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Starring

Wacław Dybowski, Bohdan Poręba, Janusz Zakrzeński, Włodzimierz T. Kowalski, Krzysztof Chamiec, Józef Fryźlewicz, Mikołaj Kompan-Altman, Jerzy Kaliszewski, Andrzej Płocki

Director

Bohdan Poręba