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

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