Polonia Restituta

Overview

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.

Cast

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

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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