A film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, the winner of Gdynia Film Festival Platinum Lions lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was the director of the “Kadr” Film Studio for many years
and the founder and first president of the Polish Filmmakers Association.
The second part of a diptych based on Igor Newerly’s novel “Pamiątka z Celulozy”. Both the book and the film were very well received by the viewers, critics and censors.
The feature debut of Lucyna Winnicka, a remarkable actress and privately the wife of Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Her roles in the films “Pociąg” and “Matka Joanna od Aniołów” are considered to be legendary in the history of Polish cinema.
The work successfully combines the propaganda communication and a strong social criticism of the Second Polish Republic with a romantic motif.
The continuation of the story of Szczęsny who as a mature communist activist takes part in a struggle for workers’ rights, while experiencing a great love.
After his return to the “Celuloza” factory in Włocławek, Szczęsny gets involved in the activity of the Communist Party of Poland. When he single-handedly eliminates a police infiltrator, he has to leave the city. His reunites with Madzia, who works in the underground printing press. The both revolutionaries fall in love with each other. They help to organize a large strike of workers which ends with a brutal military intervention. Madzia is sent to jail. Sought by the police, Szczęsny decides to go to Spain to fight against the Franco regime.
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