September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
as Tadeusz
as Katarzyna
as Professor
as Major "Kazimierz"
as Lieutenant "Florian"
as Tadeusz and Witek's mother
as Szulc
as Witek
as Samuel Blum
as Soldier
as Resistance fighter
as Fugitive
as Polish Army Lieutenant
as Szulc's translator
as German soldier (credited as H. Fok)
as Resistance fighter giving out clothes
as German soldier
as Sick man (uncredited)
as Resistance fighter (uncredited)
as Resistance fighter (uncredited)
as Man trying to cross the other side of the Vistula (uncredited)
