

84 minutes
10/1/1979
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

Teresa Lipowska
as Jagna Ślimakowa

Franciszek Pieczka
as Józef Ślimak

Andrzej Kozak
as Maciek Owczarz

Włodzimierz Twardowski
as Jędrek
Janina Grzegorczyk
as Magda

Wanda Ostrowska
as Hedwig

Ewa Zdzieszyńska
as Sobieska

Ewa Żukowska

Henryk Bista
as Hirszgold

Ludwik Benoit
as mayor
Sylwester Borkowski
as Staś

Ryszard Dembiński
as sergeant

Jan Paweł Kruk

Krzysztof Kalczyński
as Henryk
Jan Konieczny
as Jaśko Grzyb

Włodzimierz Kwaskowski
as Hamer
Włodzimierz Musiał
as Knapp

Jerzy Nowak
as Josel Szatzman

Leon Niemczyk

Józef Pieracki
Stefan Paska
as Helmut

Bogusław Sochnacki
as Fritz

Bogumił Antczak
as German (uncredited)

Zbigniew Bielski
as Wilhelm (uncredited)

Jerzy Braszka
as (uncredited)

Aleksander Fogiel
as priest (uncredited)

Andrzej Głoskowski
as surveyor (uncredited)

Tomasz Grochoczyński
as heir's brother-in-law (uncredited)

Józef Grzeszczak
as colonist (uncredited)
Bogdan Łysakowski
as German (uncredited)
Czesław Magnowski
as colonist (uncredited)

Zygmunt Malawski
as mayor (uncredited)
Borys Marynowski
as German (uncredited)

Barbara Wałkówna
as (uncredited)

Tadeusz Teodorczyk
as German (uncredited)

Józef Zbiróg
as peasant (uncredited)

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
as lector (voice) (uncredited)