Released:
1981-05-18

Overview:
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.

Director:
Bohdan Poręba

Runtime:
3h 40min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Janusz Zakrzeński
  as
  marszałek Józef Piłsudski
• 
  Krzysztof Chamiec
  as
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
• 
  Józef Fryźlewicz
  as
  Roman Dmowski
• 
  Jerzy Kaliszewski
  as
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA
• 
  Emil Karewicz
  as
  płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona