86 minutes
11/19/1993
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

Bronisław Pekosiński
as Bronisław Pekosiński

Maria Klejdysz
as pani Bukowska

Anna Seniuk
as koleżanka Danusia

Franciszek Trzeciak
as sekretarz Jan Kos

Bronisław Pawlik
as sędzia

Franciszek Pieczka
as ksiądz Michalski

Krzysztof Chamiec
as generał Bagno

Anna Milewska
as siostra

Romuald Karaś
as on sam, dziennikarz słuchający opowieści Pekosińskiego

Henryk Sobiechart
as syn Bukowskiej

Jolanta Rychłowska
as koleżanka Stasia

Aleksander Fogiel
as profesor

Zygmunt Malanowicz
as kościelny

Witold Pyrkosz
as sekretarz

Waldemar Prokopowicz
as asystent sekretarza Kosa

Tomasz Zaliwski
as ojciec przełożony

Włodzimierz Adamski
as organizator turnieju szachowego

Jan Prochyra
as dyrektor PGR-u

Stanisław Brudny
as nauczyciel

Elżbieta Starostecka
as pani Wanda

Bogusz Bilewski
as pracownik PGR-u

Tadeusz Falana
as zakonnik

Anna Grzeszczak
as Matka Boska

Jacek Kopczyński
as mąż Miriam

Ryszard Kotys
as Rysio, milicjant - szachista
Mariola Kukuła
as prostytutka

Barbara Lauks
as spikerka tv
Andrzej Lipiński
as kolega Kosa

Andrzej Mastalerz
as syn Rysia

Anna Grażyna Suchocka
as [obsada aktorska]
Małgorzata Wachecka
as dziennikarka
Wojciech Walasik
as szachista