The Crown Witness

Feb 2, 2007

1h 37m

★ 5.1

Overview

Blacha, an ex-middleman in the criminal underground, is the key witness in an enormous Pruszkow mafia bust. As such he is kept under lock and key hidden away from the world. Intent on getting an interview with the ex-gangster is Marcin Kruk, whose pregnant wife was collateral damage in a mafia car-bomb several years back with Blacha being his main suspect. Fortunately Blacha holds Marcin's journalistic work in very high regard, hence agrees to an exclusive interview in a secluded hotel in the Hel peninsula. There he retreads his criminal life...

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Cast

Marcin Kruk

Paweł Małaszyński

Jan "Blacha" Blachowski

Robert Więckiewicz

Paweł Sikora

Artur Żmijewski

Mira Blachowska

Małgorzata Foremniak

Iwona Filska

Urszula Grabowska

Małgorzata Sarnecka

Alicja Dąbrowska

Władysław Różycki "Skalpel"

Szymon Bobrowski

Jarosław Kowalik "Kowal"

Andrzej Grabowski

Andrzej Basiak "Mnich"

Andrzej Zieliński

Roman Kraus "Szybki"

Maciej Kozłowski

Robert Gazda

Krzysztof Globisz

Ryszard Nowak "Rysiek"

Janusz Chabior

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