The Death of Captain Pilecki

The Death of Captain Pilecki

2006 · 85 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, TV Movie

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.

Directed by Ryszard Bugajski · Written by Ryszard Bugajski

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Marek Probosz Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki
Marek Kalita Sędzia podpułkownik Jan Hryckowian
Andrzej Niemirski Major Czesław Łapiński
Jacek Rozenek Pułkownik UB Józef Różański
Andrzej Czernik Generał Władysław Anders
Gabriela Muskała Maria Pilecka
Jan Monczka Prokurator pułkownik Stanisław Zarakowski
Aleksandra Konieczna Stanisława Hryckowian
Łukasz Simlat Tadeusz Płużański
Agnieszka Mandat Leokadia Płużańska
Krzysztof Bień Mecenas Lech Buszkowski
Anna Gornostaj Mecenas Alicja Pintarowa

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