Marian Skorupa

En 1945, la Pologne est déchirée par les luttes impitoyables qui opposent partisans des Allemands et des Soviétiques. Un jeune homme chargé de tuer un dirigeant communiste, prend peu à peu conscience des horreurs de la guerre.

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?

Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.

Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.

Stefan Starzyński, the mayor of Warsaw, organizes life in the capital in September 1939 and lift the inhabitants' spirits via radio announcements. After the surrender, he does not use his last chance to escape.