Polonia Restituta (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.
- Date of release
- 1981-05-18
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 3h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Bohdan Poręba
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Polonia Restituta is a 1980 historical film based on a 1928 documentary of the same name. It was written by Włodzimierz T. Kowalski and directed by Bohdan Poręba.
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