Polonia Restituta
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1981-05-18
Runtime: 220 mins
Director: Bohdan Poręba
Writer: Włodzimierz T. Kowalski
Spoken language: Polski
Genres: Drama, History
Original title: Polonia Restituta
Production Companies: Zespół Filmowy "Profil"
Production Countries: Poland
Cast
Janusz Zakrzeński
Krzysztof Chamiec
Józef Fryźlewicz
Jerzy Kaliszewski
Emil Karewicz
Kirił Ławrow
Edmund Fetting
Zdzisław Mrożewski
Ignacy Gogolewski
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Andrzej Precigs
Zbigniew Bielski
Janusz Bylczyński
Adolf Chronicki
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