Directed by:
Leonard BuczkowskiScreenplay:
Ludwik StarskiCinematography:
Adolf ForbertCast:
Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordężanka, Jerzy Duszyński, Jan Świderski, Jan Kurnakowicz, Janina Draczewska, Hanka Bielicka, Barbara Drapińska, Alina Janowska (more)Plots(1)
The first Polish feature film completed after the war recorded life in the occupied capital and a unique form of resistance − namely the public performance of banned patriotic songs ridiculing the occupier. The second version was reedited after allegations published in "Kużnia" magazine: after the scenes of the Uprising, a sequence with a parade of troops occupying Warsaw and several other scenes "to strengthen the realism of the occupation” were added. Today, the main protagonist of the film is this authentic street song and the voices of anonymous performers. Roman Tokarski, a composer collecting melodies from the time of the Nazi occupation, tells a young Polish soldier − a repatriate from England − the story of "the forbidden song" in the capital. The song Varsovienne evokes images of the autumn of 1939: the first patriotic street concerts in which he participated as a musician along with his sister, Halina. Together, they organised a street orchestra, and later worked in the underground resistance, carrying weapons and documents and taking part in diversionary actions. After the Warsaw Uprising, they took refuge with a partisan unit. The story of their wartime lives is intersected with the fate of the other residents of the house: Cieślak, their cowardly neighbour − Tokarska, a Jew in hiding, a traitor violinist and a German informer. (3Kino Fest)
(more)Cast
Danuta Szaflarska
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Jerzy Duszyński
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Jan Świderski
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Jan Kurnakowicz
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Janina Draczewska
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Hanka Bielicka
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Barbara Drapińska
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Alina Janowska
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Waclaw Kowalski
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Zbigniew Skowroński
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Zofia Mrozowska
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Czeslaw Piaskowski
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Kazimierz Wichniarz
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Witold Sadowy
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Irena Netto
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Józef Maliszewski
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Juliusz Kalinowski
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Ewa Sykała-Zdzieszyńska
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