The Birthday

The Birthday

1980 · 96 min · ★ 8.5 · Drama, War

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

Directed by Ewa Petelska · Written by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński

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Piotr Łysak Jerzy Bielecki
Andrzej Łapicki Stanisław Bielecki
Jolanta Grusznic Teresa
Gabriela Kownacka Jadźka
Hanna Skarżanka Jerzy's Grandmother
Kazimierz Kaczor Karczewski
Roman Frankl Ziemowit
Tomasz Zaliwski Walczak
Arkadiusz Bazak Gustaw
Krzysztof Chamiec Colonel
Henryk Kluba Tax Office Clerk
Witold Pyrkosz Antoni Jakubowicz

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