Polonia Restituta (1981)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1981-05-18
Runtime: 220 minutes
Director: Bohdan Poręba
Top Cast
- Janusz Zakrzeński as marszałek Józef Piłsudski
- Krzysztof Chamiec as Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Józef Fryźlewicz as Roman Dmowski
- Jerzy Kaliszewski as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA
- Emil Karewicz as płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona
- Kirił Ławrow as Włodzimierz Lenin
- Edmund Fetting as Dawid Lloyd George, premier Wielkiej Brytanii
- Zdzisław Mrożewski as Arthur James Balfour, minister spraw zagranicznych UK
- Ignacy Gogolewski as Stefan Żeromski
- Zygmunt Malanowicz as Franek Pawlak
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