
Polonia Restituta
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Release Date: 1981-05-18
Drama
History
Casts

Janusz Zakrzeński
as marszałek Józef Piłsudski

Krzysztof Chamiec
as Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Józef Fryźlewicz
as Roman Dmowski

Jerzy Kaliszewski
as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA

Emil Karewicz
as płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona

Edmund Fetting
as Dawid Lloyd George, premier Wielkiej Brytanii

Zdzisław Mrożewski
as Arthur James Balfour, minister spraw zagranicznych UK

Ignacy Gogolewski
as Stefan Żeromski

Zygmunt Malanowicz
as Franek Pawlak

Andrzej Precigs
as Tadek Pawlak, brat Franka