70 minutes
9/1/1980
September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Henryk Talar
as Tadeusz
Ewa Borowik
as Katarzyna
Edmund Fetting
as Professor
Jerzy Kamas
as Major "Kazimierz"
Emil Karewicz
as Lieutenant "Florian"
Anna Milewska
as Tadeusz and Witek's mother
Erwin Nowiaszak
as Szulc
Andrzej Precigs
as Witek
Mieczysław Voit
as Samuel Blum
Wiesław Gołas
as Soldier
Eugeniusz Kamiński
as Resistance fighter
Katarzyna Łaniewska
as Fugitive
Tomasz Zaliwski
as Polish Army Lieutenant
Bogusław Sar
as Szulc's translator
Stanisław Symonowicz
Wojciech Zagórski
Wiktor Zborowski
Stefania Błońska
Joanna Ciemniewska
Marek Dąbrowski
Zygmunt Fok
as German soldier (credited as H. Fok)
Waldemar Kownacki
as Resistance fighter giving out clothes
Ryszard Nadrowski
Jan Orsza-Łukasiewicz
Marek Prałat
Andrzej Prus
as German soldier
A. Rutkowska
Jolanta Skubniewska
Bogdan Śmigielski
Edward Tymiński
Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
Andrzej Wiśniewski
Helena Wizło-Sztark
Kazimierz Wójcikowski
Mieczysław Hryniewicz
as Sick man (uncredited)
Czesław Mroczek
as Resistance fighter (uncredited)
Szymon Pawlicki
as Resistance fighter (uncredited)
Jacek Strzemżalski
as Man trying to cross the other side of the Vistula (uncredited)