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The Birthday

Film

The Birthday

7.0

1h 36m

1980

Synopsis

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

Director

Ewa Petelska

Czesław Petelski

DramaWar

woman director

Cast & Crew

Andrzej Łapicki

Andrzej Łapicki

as Stanisław Bielecki

Witold Pyrkosz

Witold Pyrkosz

as Antoni Jakubowicz

Kazimierz Kaczor

Kazimierz Kaczor

as Karczewski

Gabriela Kownacka

Gabriela Kownacka

as Jadźka

Hanna Skarżanka

Hanna Skarżanka

as babcia Jerzego

Jolanta Grusznic

Jolanta Grusznic

as Teresa

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