Polonia Restituta
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.
Cast
Janusz Zakrzeński
as marszałek Józef Piłsudski
Krzysztof Chamiec
as Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Józef Fryźlewicz
as Roman Dmowski
Jerzy Kaliszewski
as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA
Emil Karewicz
as płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona
Kirił Ławrow
as Włodzimierz Lenin
Edmund Fetting
as Dawid Lloyd George, premier Wielkiej Brytanii
Zdzisław Mrożewski
as Arthur James Balfour, minister spraw zagranicznych UK
Ignacy Gogolewski
as Stefan Żeromski
Zygmunt Malanowicz
as Franek Pawlak
