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.
- Released
- 1981-05-18
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 220 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bohdan Poręba
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
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
- Andrzej Precigs as Tadek Pawlak, brat Franka
- Zbigniew Bielski as Janek Pawlak, brat Franka