
📜 Overview:
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
🌏 Languages Available:
Polish
📆 Date Released:
1977-02-25
⌚ Running Time:
153 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.0
Beloved Cast

Agnieszka
Krystyna Janda

Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

Jerzy Burski
Tadeusz Łomnicki

Jerzy Burski (young)
Jacek Lomnicki

Witek
Michał Tarkowski

Michalak
Piotr Cieślak

Jodła
Wiesław Wójcik

Hanka Tomczyk
Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Editor
Magda Teresa Wójcik

TV Editor
Bogusław Sobczuk

Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP
Leonard Zajączkowski

Sound Man
Jacek Domański

Agnieszka's Father
Zdzisław Kozień

Museum Worker
Irena Laskowska

Hanka's Husband
Wiesław Drzewicz

UB Colonel
Kazimierz Kaczor

Colonel's Secretary
Ewa Ziętek

Blonde
Elżbieta Borkowska-Szukszta

Judge
Andrzej Grąziewicz

Prosecutor
Edmund Karwański

Stefania Kornacka

Marcin Pawlusiak
Henryk Łapiński

Engineer Moniak
Jerzy Moniak

Zakopane Houseekeper
Irena Oberska

Chronicle Sound Man
Zbigniew Płoszaj

Mieczysław Hertz
Juliusz Roland

ZMP Meeting Chairman
Maciej Rayzacher

Agnieszka's Driver
Grzegorz Skurski

Photojournalist in Okęcie
Dorota Stalińska

Boardroom Member
Zdzisław Szymborski

Construction Technician
Mariusz Świgoń

Marysia's Guardian
Krystyna Wolańska

Jan Wołodkiewicz
Andrzej Wykrętowicz

Film Director (uncredited)
Feliks Falk

Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)
Stanisław Frąckowiak

Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)
Witold Holtz

Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)
Krzysztof Kiersznowski

Worker (uncredited)
Jarosław Kopaczewski

Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)
Ilona Łepkowska

Judge (uncredited)
Stanisław Michalik

Chronicle Narrator (voice)
Mieczysław Grąbka

Record Beating Announcer (voice)
Andrzej Seweryn

Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)
Agnieszka Holland