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.
Directed by Bohdan Poręba
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Cast
Janusz Zakrzeński
marszałek Józef Piłsudski
Krzysztof Chamiec
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Józef Fryźlewicz
Roman Dmowski
Jerzy Kaliszewski
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA
Emil Karewicz
płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona
Kirił Ławrow
Włodzimierz Lenin
Edmund Fetting
Dawid Lloyd George, premier Wielkiej Brytanii
Zdzisław Mrożewski
Arthur James Balfour, minister spraw zagranicznych UK
Ignacy Gogolewski
Stefan Żeromski
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Franek Pawlak
Andrzej Precigs
Tadek Pawlak, brat Franka
Zbigniew Bielski
Janek Pawlak, brat Franka
Janusz Bylczyński
ksiądz prałat, członek Rady Regencyjnej
Adolf Chronicki
Wacław Sieroszewski
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