Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
Poland Poland
Bożena Kurowska Grażyna Staniszewska Zbigniew Cynkutis Andrzej Kostenko Roman Kłosowski Tadeusz Łomnicki Andrzej May Stanisław Mikulski Jerzy Nasierowski Jerzy Pichelski Wojciech Siemion Michał Szewczyk Tomasz Zaliwski Jan Dębski Halina Drohocka Irena Jaglarzowa Witold Kałuski Jan Kobuszewski Tadeusz Kosudarski Irena Malkiewicz Bernard Michalski Jerzy Molga Adam Mularczyk Sylwia Nowosielska Roman Ordeński Tadeusz Ordeyg Zbigniew Oksza Ryszard Piekarski Kalina Pieńkiewicz Bożena Pietraszek Rudolf Ratschka Juliusz Roland Witold Skaruch Krystyna Szerenkowska Danuta Wodyńska Marian Czyżewski Seweryn Dalecki Stefania Iwińska Lech Lorentowicz Bogdan Łysakowski Wawrzyniec Trybala-Olszewski Romuald Walter Mieczysław Waśkowski Zygmunt Wiaderny
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Love Gets a Room
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