

100 minutes
4/16/1979
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.

Piotr Łysak
as Mikołaj Srebrny
Tomasz Hudziec
as Mikołaj Srebrny (Child)

Hanna Skarżanka
as Mikołaj's Grandmother

Maria Chwalibóg
as Komendowa

Teresa Marczewska
as Mother

Bronisław Pawlik
as Michał Srebrny

Janusz Michałowski
as Wacław Komenda

Wiktor Sadecki
as Middle School Headmaster

Stanisław Igar
as Ptaszycki

Michał Pawlicki
as Catechist

Jan Nowicki
as Chwostek

Henryk Boukołowski
as Znamierowski

Bogdan Koca
as Marecki
Tomasz Koca
as Marecki (Child)

Piotr Probosz
as Stukło

Adam Probosz
as Stukło (Child)

Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska
as Wysłocka

Jan Prochyra
as Raciaty

Halina Wyrodek
as Róża
Barbara Bosak
Danuty Jamrozy
Ewa Kozłowska
Hanna Mikuć
as Balbina
Jerzy Bożym

Aleksander Fabisiak
as Doctor

Jerzy Kozakiewicz
as Guest in Poręba

Krzysztof Stachowski
as Student accused of Snitching
Leonard Szewczuk
Ferdynand Wójcik
as Priest

Marek Probosz
as Student (uncredited)