A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

Andrzej Kopiczyński
as Mikołaj Kopernik

Barbara Wrzesińska
as Anna Schilling

Czesław Wołłejko
as Łukasz Watzenrode

Andrzej Antkowiak
as Andrzej Kopernik

Klaus-Peter Thiele
as Jerzy Joachim Retyk

Henryk Boukołowski
as Cardinal Hipolit d'Este

Hannjo Hasse
as Ossiander

Henryk Borowski
as Tiedemann Giese

Jadwiga Chojnacka
as Kacper's Mother

Aleksander Fogiel
as Matz Schilling