
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