Polonia Restituta

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.

Country:

Poland

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

220 minutes

Year:

1981

Director:

Bohdan Poręba

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Company:

Zespół Filmowy "Profil"

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

Crew:
Bohdan Poręba

Director

Włodzimierz T. Kowalski

Writer

Wacław Dybowski

Director of Photography

Andrzej Płocki

Production Design

Maria Karmolińska

Set Decoration