A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski
Crew: Andrzej Wajda (Director), Jerzy Wójcik (Director of Photography), Roman Mann (Production Design), Jerzy Andrzejewski (Novel), Jerzy Andrzejewski (Screenplay), Andrzej Wajda (Screenplay)
Country: Poland
Language: Polski
Studio: Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Runtime: 103 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 03, 1958
IMDb: 3.6
