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Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Poland Poland
Olgierd Łukaszewicz Alicja Jachiewicz Magdalena Emilianowicz Anna Cieślak Zbigniew Stryj Jacek Rozenek Maciej Radel Krzysztof Franieczek Maciej Mikołajczyk Stefan Szmidt Nela Biernacka Maria Mamona Maciej Kozłowski Tomasz Dedek Wenanty Nosul Grzegorz Wolf Artur Dziurman Vadim Afanassiev Jakub Ulewicz Katarzyna Herman Grzegorz Kowalczyk Piotr Pilitowski Tadeusz Bradecki Adam Woronowicz Paweł Niczewski Dorota Landowska Jakub Wieczorek Aurelia Sobczak Mirosław Ruszczyk Andrzej Żółkiewski Witold Szulc Sławomir Gaudyn Piotr Rękawik Piotr Grabowski Miłogost Reczek Remigiusz Jankowski Dariusz Wnuk Artur Chamski Ireneusz Kozioł Zbigniew Dziduch Robert Mazurkiewicz Zbigniew Kozłowski Krzysztof Łukaszewicz W. Babicz Witold Bałusz Dawid Baran J. Baumert Aleksandra Biskot Wojciech Błach W. Bryłko Roman Bugaj Beata Chruścińska Jarosław Cieśla Zofia Czarnota Kamil Dąbrowski Andrzej Deskur Sylwia Dziedzic Grzegorz Emanuel Maciej Ferlak Maciej Frączyk Damian Grabarski P. Gudanowicz Paweł Iwanicki Mieczysław Kadłubowski Z. Katner Aniko Kiss Jadwiga Klekowska Grzegorz Klein Ryszard Kluge Stefan Knothe Wojciech Korwin-Wierzbicki Marek Kossakowski Marek Lewandowski Mariusz Luszowski Andrzej Łappa M. Łukasik Natalia Malarowska Sylwester Matulka M. Matuszewski Włodzimierz Midak Leszek Musiał Zacharjasz Muszyński Wiesław Niżyński W. Piasecki Jacek Pluta Andrzej Purzycki Marcin Sarna M. Skrzecz J. Sokołowski Michał Sosnowski C. Sikora Magdalena Smalara Jarosław Szczepaniak Paweł Szczesny Kamil Toliński K. Tusiński Robert Wabich Adam Warchoł Marta Wardyńska Grzegorz Woźniak Jacek Zabłocki Z. Zakłada D. Zakrzewski Benno Zerbst Andrzej Zgud Leszek Lichota Grażyna Marzec
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