September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Cast
Henryk Talar
Tadeusz
Ewa Borowik
Katarzyna
Edmund Fetting
Professor
Jerzy Kamas
Major "Kazimierz"
Emil Karewicz
Lieutenant "Florian"
Anna Milewska
Tadeusz and Witek's mother
Erwin Nowiaszak
Szulc
Andrzej Precigs
Witek
Mieczysław Voit
Samuel Blum
Wiesław Gołas
Soldier
Eugeniusz Kamiński
Resistance fighter
Katarzyna Łaniewska
Fugitive
Tomasz Zaliwski
Polish Army Lieutenant
Bogusław Sar
Szulc's translator
Stanisław Symonowicz
Unknown
Wojciech Zagórski
Unknown
Wiktor Zborowski
Unknown
Stefania Błońska
Unknown
Joanna Ciemniewska
Unknown
Marek Dąbrowski
Unknown
Zygmunt Fok
German soldier (credited as H. Fok)
Waldemar Kownacki
Resistance fighter giving out clothes
Ryszard Nadrowski
Unknown
Jan Orsza-Łukasiewicz
Unknown
Marek Prałat
Unknown
Andrzej Prus
German soldier
A. Rutkowska
Unknown
Jolanta Skubniewska
Unknown
Bogdan Śmigielski
Unknown
Edward Tymiński
Unknown
Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
Unknown
Andrzej Wiśniewski
Unknown
Helena Wizło-Sztark
Unknown
Kazimierz Wójcikowski
Unknown
Mieczysław Hryniewicz
Sick man (uncredited)
Czesław Mroczek
Resistance fighter (uncredited)
Szymon Pawlicki
Resistance fighter (uncredited)
Jacek Strzemżalski
Man trying to cross the other side of the Vistula (uncredited)
Crew
Tadeusz Kijański
Director
Ryszard Frelek
Writer
Jadwiga Zajiček
Editor
Mathieu Przedpełski
Director of Photography
Zenon Różewicz
Production Design, Set Decoration
Jadwiga Rutkiewicz
Costume Design
Iwona Kamińska
Makeup & Hair
Jan Szmańda
Sound
Waldemar Kazanecki
Music
Krystyna Palecka
Set Decoration
Tadeusz Karwański
Production Manager