Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk
Witold Holtz
Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)
Krystyna Janda
Agnieszka
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Hanka Tomczyk
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Jerzy Burski
Andrzej Seweryn
Record Beating Announcer (voice)
Zdzisław Kozień
Agnieszka's Father
Jacek Domański
Sound Man
Dorota Stalińska
Photojournalist in Okęcie
Andrzej Wykrętowicz
Jan Wołodkiewicz
Ewa Ziętek
Colonel's Secretary
Mieczysław Grąbka
Chronicle Narrator (voice)
Stanisław Michalik
Judge (uncredited)
Kazimierz Kaczor
UB Colonel
Stanisław Frąckowiak
Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)
Maciej Rayzacher
ZMP Meeting Chairman
Michał Tarkowski
Witek
Piotr Cieślak
Michalak
Andrzej Grąziewicz
Judge
Irena Laskowska
Museum Worker
Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)
Bogusław Sobczuk
TV Editor
Magda Teresa Wójcik
Editor
Jarosław Kopaczewski
Worker (uncredited)
Irena Oberska
Zakopane Houseekeper
Wiesław Drzewicz
Hanka's Husband
Krystyna Wolańska
Marysia's Guardian
Grzegorz Skurski
Agnieszka's Driver
Henryk Łapiński
Marcin Pawlusiak
Juliusz Roland
Mieczysław Hertz
Edmund Karwański
Prosecutor
Zbigniew Płoszaj
Chronicle Sound Man
Wiesław Wójcik
Jodła
Elżbieta Borkowska-Szukszta
Blonde
Jacek Lomnicki
Jerzy Burski (young)
Stefania Kornacka
Zdzisław Szymborski
Boardroom Member
Mariusz Świgoń
Construction Technician

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