Movie Drama
A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.
Poland Poland
Arkadiusz Jakubik Robert Więckiewicz Jacek Braciak Janusz Gajos Joanna Kulig Adrian Zaremba Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska Ignacy Klim Michał Gadomski Katarzyna Chlebny Iwona Bielska Bartosz Tryboń Kamil Panas Robert Wabich Sebastian Perdek Oleh Kyryliv Roman Skorovskyi Richard Pitrimov Izabela Kuna Mia Goti Wojciech Urbański Helena Sujecka Pola Strusińska Jakub Dyniewicz Przemysław Redkowski Jan Nosal Anna Szymańczyk Mateusz Więcławek Paweł Kumięga Bartosz Kopeć Jarosław Gruda Marta Waldera Jakub Wróblewski Magdalena Smalara Franciszek Bartłomiejczyk Stanisław Brejdygant Michał Jarmicki Jacek Beler Zacharjasz Muszyński Wojciech Frycz Marcin Rychcik Mikołaj Kubacki Robert Krajewski Mieczysław Ostroróg Piotr Szczerbic Rafał Mohr Adrian Jastrzębski Delfina Wilkońska Serhii Bachyk Agnieszka Matysiak Ewa Serwa Miłosz Kwiecień Davyd Shevtsov Albert Lach Przemysław Strojkowski Mateusz Pierożek Robert Rogalski Mirosław Haniszewski Bartłomiej Firlet Bartłomiej Topa Adetoye Sanday Juliusz Chrząstowski Bartłomiej Bobrowski Włodzimierz Matuszak Piotr Różański Andrzej Słabiak Stanisław Szelc Leszek Zdybał Joanna Aleksandrowicz Tomasz Augustynowicz Olga Bończyk Marcin Czarnik Anna Grycewicz Paweł Kowalczyk Katarzyna Krzanowska Piotr Michalski Sebastian Pawlak Jagoda Pietruszkówna Piotr Pilitowski Adam Serowaniec Iwona Sitkowska Rafał Trzaska Maja Wachowska Julia Wyszyńska Karol Piotr Zapała Katarzyna Herman Henryk Talar Józef Duriasz Andrzej Konopka Michał Starski Grzegorz Mikołajczyk Bartosz Bielenia Ryszard Łukowski Marek Kossakowski Andrzej Deskur Elżbieta Jarosik Mirosław Kropielnicki Marek Jera Izabela Kapiasová Vladimír Javorský Betty Q Leonardo Lacaria Jan Zapała Dariusz Toczek Michał Mostowiec Olaf Marchwicki Jan Karewicz Maxim Topyła Matylda Baczyńska Antoni Barłowski Wiesław Kruczek Marek Bogucki Andrea Cattaneo Monika Frajczyk Tomasz Piotrowski Bohdan Graczyk Jan Hartman Dorota Zięciowska Marcin Juchniewicz Jacek Milczanowski Jan Paździorko Maria Sobocińska Małgorzata Kowalska Dan Sumikowski Kacper Tatar Piotr Urbaniak Paweł Żabicki Alicja Kubaszewska Oliwia Angerstein Maciej Barej Robert Brudziński Radosław Cabała Urszula Chrzanowska Piotr Czarniecki Bartosz Czyrek Dorian Dąbrowski Antonina Dudziak Artur Gortatowski Maciej Góral Marlena Gulka Jerzy Hojda Lena Houda Zofia Izdebska Artur Kalicki Matylda Katan Szymon Kościuszko Robert Kowalczyk Przemysław Krawczyk Wilhelmina Lipińska Radosław Ochnio Wiktor Madejczyk Jarosław Malinowski Lidia Mikiewicz Manuela Mikiewicz Bartosz Mrozowski Łukasz Niedźwiecki Jakub Potyrała Maciej Romanowski Robert Rutkowski Magdalena Ryniewicz Natalia Strzelecka Aleksandra Terpińska Maciej Zegarski Magda Biegańska Zbigniew Waleryś Natalia Sikora
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