Polonia Restituta

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Release date: May 18, 1981
Duration: 220 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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Janusz Zakrzeński
marszałek Józef Piłsudski
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Krzysztof Chamiec
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Józef Fryźlewicz
Roman Dmowski
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Jerzy Kaliszewski
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA
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Emil Karewicz
płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona