
Polonia Restituta
Movie Overview
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.
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

Kirił Ławrow
Włodzimierz Lenin

Edmund Fetting
Dawid Lloyd George, premier Wielkiej Brytanii

Zdzisław Mrożewski
Arthur James Balfour, minister spraw zagranicznych UK