Polonia Restituta

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Janusz Zakrzeński marszałek Józef Piłsudski

Krzysztof Chamiec Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Józef Fryźlewicz Roman Dmowski

Jerzy Kaliszewski Thomas Woodrow Wilson, prezydent USA

Emil Karewicz płk Edward House, współpracownik prezydenta Wilsona