Legions

Sep 20, 2019

2h 20m

★ 6.7

Overview

A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team.

Genres

Drama

History

War

Production Companies

Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny

Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

Picaresque

Polcar

Kino Świat

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Cast

Tadeusz Zbarski

Bartosz Gelner

Aleksandra Tubilewicz

Wiktoria Wolańska

Stanisław 'King' Kaszubski

Mirosław Baka

Józef Piłsudski

Jan Frycz

Captain Andrzej Złotnicki

Grzegorz Małecki

Lieutenant Jerzy Topór-Kisielnicki

Antoni Pawlicki

Rittmeister Zbigniew Dunin Wąsowicz

Borys Szyc

Józek 'Tower'

Sebastian Fabijański

Cook

Piotr Cyrwus

Tadeusz Kasprzycki

Modest Ruciński

Felek

Karol Czajkowski

Staszek

Jakub Hojda

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