Polonia Restituta
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Poland, Hungary, East Germany · 1981
3h 40m
Director Bohdan Poręba
Starring Janusz Zakrzeński, Krzysztof Chamiec, Józef Fryźlewicz, Jerzy Kaliszewski
Genre Drama, History
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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.
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