1977, 93 min Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria
JAN ŁOMNICKI
Script/Scenariusz
JERZY STEFAN STAWIŃSKI
Cinematography/Zdjęcia
JERZY GOŚCIK
Art Direction/Scenografia
HALINA DOBROWOLSKA
Music/Muzyka
PIOTR HERTEL
Editing/Montaż
BARBARA KOSIDOWSKA
Sound/Dźwięk
ANDRZEJ BOHDANOWICZ
Produced by/Produkcja
ILUZJON FILM GROUP
Cast/ Obsada
Cezary Morawski (Jan Bytnar “Rudy”), Mirosław Konarowski (Tadeusz Zawadzki ”Zośka”), Ryszard Gajewski (Maciej Dawidowski ”Alek”), Magdalena Wołłejko (Baśka), Jan Englert (”Stefan Orsza”), Zbigniew Zapasiewicz (“Rudy’s” Father), Lidia Korsakówna (“Rudy’s” Mother), Tomasz Łomnicki (Doctor), Karol Sturm (Schultz)
Based on a well-known Polish novel with the same title, the movie re-tells a true life story of a group of scouts called ”Szare Szeregi” (“Gray Ranks”) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and the liberation of one of its members (imprisoned and tortured by the Germans) through a maverick military action in board daylight right under the enemy’s nose known ”Action at the Arsenal” which was the biggest single feat of the sort undertaken by a youth resistance organization in all of occupied Europe during WWII.
JAN ŁOMNICKI
Born in 1929 in Podhajce (near Lviv – now Ukraine), died in 2002. Film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź in 1957. He directed more than thirty films between 1954 and 2000 documentaries, feature and TV serials.
Filmography
1996-2000 The House (Dom) – TV series
1994 It Is as It Is (Jest jak jest) – TV series
1994 The Rat (Szczur)
1992 Big Brawl (Wielka wsypa)
1991 Just Beyond This Forest (Jeszcze tylko ten las)
1989 Modrzejewska – TV series
Gallery Theatre November 14 at 5:00 pm.
