The Butler

Sep 21, 2018

2h 22m

★ 6.5

Overview

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.

Genres

History

Romance

War

Production Companies

Filmicon

Bell PPHU Krzysztof Palyska

Eda Cafee Edward Laskawiec

Meron Tadeusz Meronik

Narodowe Centrum Kultury

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Cast

Bazyli Miotke

Janusz Gajos

Gerda von Krauss

Anna Radwan

Mateusz Kroll

Sebastian Fabijański

Marita von Krauss

Marianna Zydek

Hermann von Krauss

Adam Woronowicz

Franz Necel

Sławomir Orzechowski

Urszula Miotke

Diana Zamojska

Fryderyk von Krauss

Borys Szyc

Peter Schmidt

Łukasz Simlat

Kurt von Krauss

Marcel Sabat

Angela von Krauss

Kamilla Baar

Leo von Trettow

Daniel Olbrychski

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