
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)