109 minutes
9/8/1970
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Daniel Olbrychski
as Tadeusz
Stanisława Celińska
as Nina
Aleksander Bardini
as Professor
Tadeusz Janczar
as Karol
Zygmunt Malanowicz
as Priest - Editor
Mieczysław Stoor
as Ensign
Leszek Drogosz
as Tolek
Stefan Friedmann
as Cygan
Jerzy Obłamski
as Prisoner
Jerzy Zelnik
as American Commander
Małgorzata Braunek
as German Woman on Bicycle
Anna German
as American
Agnieszka Fitkau
as Nina's Friend
Alina Szpak
as German in Barracks
Józef Pieracki
as Cook
Andrzej Piszczatowski
as American Guard
Józef Pitorak
as Archbishop
Bohdan Tomaszewski
as Polish Officer
Józef Harasiewicz
as Capo
Wojciech Lewandowski
as Major
Stanisław Michalski
as American Soldier
Leonard Mokicz
as Colonel
Konrad Wawrzyniak
Boksiński A.
as Priest
Leszek Kowalski
Tomasz Lengren
as American Soldier
Jerzy Bekker
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Oskar Dewitz
as American Soldier (uncredited)
Jerzy Łapiński
as Camp Prisoner (uncredited)
Witold Holtz
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Herman Lercher
as (uncredited)
Małgorzata Leśniewska
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Jerzy Próchnicki
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Kazimierz Rowiński
as Prisoner (uncredited)