Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
as Bronisław Pekosiński
as pani Bukowska
as koleżanka Danusia
as sekretarz Jan Kos
as sędzia
as ksiądz Michalski
as generał Bagno
as siostra
as on sam, dziennikarz słuchający opowieści Pekosińskiego
as syn Bukowskiej
as koleżanka Stasia
as profesor
as kościelny
as sekretarz
as asystent sekretarza Kosa
as ojciec przełożony
as organizator turnieju szachowego
as dyrektor PGR-u
as nauczyciel
as pani Wanda
as pracownik PGR-u
as zakonnik
as Matka Boska
as mąż Miriam
as Rysio, milicjant - szachista
as prostytutka
as spikerka tv
as kolega Kosa
as syn Rysia
as [obsada aktorska]
as dziennikarka
as szachista
