94 minutes
5/25/1977
The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
Ewa Żukowska
as Maria
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
as Matka Marii
Jan Machulski
as Ojciec Andrzeja
Marian Opania
as Redaktor naczelny
Jerzy Duszyński
as Stryj Karol
Krzysztof Zaleski
as Józef Moneta
Małgorzata Wiśniewska-Niemirska
as Anna, żona stryja Karola
Tadeusz Bogucki
as ojciec Monety
Włodzimierz Gołaszewski
as student
Ryszard Ronczewski
as wozak Wiktor
Juliusz Machulski
as uczeń Monety
Miłosz Benedyktowicz
Maria Zbyszewska
as matka Monety
Erwin Nowiaszak
as reżyser filmowy
Marek Mierzejewski
Halina Machulska
as matka Andrzeja
Ferdynand Matysik
as kapitan SB
Justyna Kulczycka
as Daria
Natasza Czarmińska
as śpiewająca dziewczyna
Maciej Korwin
as przedstawiciel władz studenckich na spotkaniu z dziekanem
Igor Przegrodzki
as dziekan
Jan Janga-Tomaszewski
as student Janek
Paweł Nowisz
as węglarz "Kyzioł"
Ewa Barszczewska
Marek Jagoda
as redaktor Januszek
Grażyna Krukówna
as sekretarka dziekana
Wacław Tymiński
Stanisław Bębenek
Kazimierz Ostrowicz
as majster
Robert Gliński
as student z maszynopisami
Andrzej Polkowski
as ojciec Marii
Lucyna Winnicka
as pani Marina, sekretarka w redakcji pisma