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Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.Read moreLess
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.
The story
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.
Cast & crew
Marek ProboszRotmistrz Witold Pilecki
Marek KalitaSędzia podpułkownik Jan Hryckowian
Andrzej NiemirskiMajor Czesław Łapiński
Jacek RozenekPułkownik UB Józef Różański
Andrzej CzernikGenerał Władysław Anders
Gabriela MuskałaMaria Pilecka
Aleksandra KoniecznaStanisława Hryckowian
Łukasz SimlatTadeusz Płużański
Agnieszka MandatLeokadia Płużańska
Krzysztof BieńMecenas Lech Buszkowski
Anna GornostajMecenas Alicja PintarowaExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Piotr Śliskowski
- Director
- Ryszard Bugajski
- Writer
- Ryszard Bugajski
- Original Music Composer
- Paweł Szymański