Synopsis
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
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Details
- Released
- 3 October 1958
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Director
- Andrzej Wajda
- Writers
- Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
- Countries
- Poland
- Languages
- Polish
- Production
- Zespół Filmowy Kadr
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Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski
Ewa Krzyżewska
Wacław Zastrzeżynski
Adam Pawlikowski
Bogumił Kobiela
Jan Ciecierski
Stanisław Milski
Artur Młodnicki
Halina Kwiatkowska
Ignacy Machowski