A screen adaptation of the popular novel “The Book of the Brats” made by its author Edmund Niziurski, whose cult children’s and teenage books continue to attract new generations of readers… and filmmakers.
The film features the first major role played by Gustaw Holoubek, a distinguished actor, film and stage director, winner of many prestigious awards, and later politician and professor at the The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.
The inventive, realistic production design by Jan Grandys constitutes a great backdrop for the outstanding camerawork of Kazimierz Wawrzyniak.
In the early 1950s, primary school pupils Karlik Rudniok and Franek Miksa spot a suspicious man in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. They take him for a saboteur trying to destroy a local mine. The boys decide to stop him and organize a risky expedition to a deserted illegal mining pit. They do not know that the dangerous drift is to be blown up… The boys are rescued in the nick of time and can return to their class headed by the adored teacher Mr Sądej.
