The Birthday (1980)
Urodziny młodego warszawiaka
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
- Date of release
- 1980-09-23
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski
Casting
- Piotr Łysak — Jerzy Bielecki
- Andrzej Łapicki — Stanisław Bielecki
- Jolanta Grusznic — Teresa
- Gabriela Kownacka — Jadźka
- Hanna Skarżanka — Jerzy's Grandmother
- Kazimierz Kaczor — Karczewski
- Roman Frankl — Ziemowit
- Tomasz Zaliwski — Walczak
- Arkadiusz Bazak — Gustaw
- Krzysztof Chamiec — Colonel
- Henryk Kluba — Tax Office Clerk
- Witold Pyrkosz — Antoni Jakubowicz
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