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.
Poland Poland
Janusz Zakrzeński Krzysztof Chamiec Józef Fryźlewicz Jerzy Kaliszewski Emil Karewicz Kirił Ławrow Edmund Fetting Zdzisław Mrożewski Ignacy Gogolewski Zygmunt Malanowicz Andrzej Precigs Zbigniew Bielski Janusz Bylczyński Adolf Chronicki Mariusz Dmochowski Józef Kalita Jerzy Krasuń Eugeniusz Kujawski Maciej Maciejewski Wiktor Nanowski Gabriel Nehrebecki Józef Para Marcin Sosnowski Andrzej Szenajch Tomasz Zaliwski Janusz Dziubiński Czesław Magnowski Ignacy Machowski Andro Kobaladze Włodzimierz Adamski Hanna Bedryńska Emir Buczacki Władysław Dewoyno Barbara Dzido-Lelińska Jerzy Fedorowicz Zbigniew Geiger Stanisław Gronkowski Andrzej Grzybowski Tadeusz Hanusek Witold Kałuski Stanisław Marian Kamiński Tadeusz Kondrat Eugeniusz Korczarowski Zdzisław Kozień Marek Litewka Gustaw Lutkiewicz Laura Łącz Marian Łącz Zygmunt Maciejewski Henryk Machalica Jerzy Michotek Ryszard Piekarski Igor Śmiałowski Alicja Sobieraj Michał Szewczyk Stefan Szmidt Zdzisław Szymborski Mieczysław Voit Eugeniusz Wałaszek Józef Zbiróg Ryszard Dembiński Tomasz Mędrzak Jerzy Moes Tadeusz Teodorczyk Andrzej Żółkiewski Bogusław Sochnacki Józef Pieracki Henryk Bista Zbigniew Józefowicz Henryk Giżycki Jan Bógdoł Arkadiusz Bazak Lech Bijałd Jerzy Aleksander Braszka Jan Ciecierski Andrzej Gazdeczka Wiesław Gołas Mariusz Gorczyński Piotr Grabowski Roman Kosierkiewicz Andrzej Kozak Andrzej Krasicki Zbigniew Kryński Adam Kwiatkowski Antoni Lewek Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski Sławomir Misiurewicz Stanisław Niwiński Remigiusz Rogacki Marian Rułka Jerzy Sagan Ryszard Sobolewski Michał Szwejlich Krzysztof Świętochowski Wacław Ulewicz Andrzej Wykrętowicz Stanisław Wyszyński Artur Barciś Włodzimierz Bednarski Tadeusz Janczar Antoni Jurasz Edward Kusztal Jan Łopuszniak Anna Milewska Jerzy Molga Jerzy Prażmowski Jerzy Turek Włodzimierz Wiszniewski
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