Polonia Restituta

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 Billed 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