Bohaterowie Sybiru
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| Directed by | Michał Waszyński |
| Written by | Eugeniusz Bodo, Jerzy Walden |
| Music by | Henryk Wars |
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| Distributed by | Patria-Film |
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Running time | 93 min. |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
Bohaterowie Sybiru ("Heroes of Siberia") is a 1936 Polish black and white drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It was preserved until modern times.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]In 1918, by the end of World War I a group of Polish POWs from the Austro-Hungarian Army, after leaning about the establishment of the independent Poland form a military detachment, which moves to join the Polish army. After their adventures amid the Russian Civil War they join the Polish 5th Rifle Division.[3][2]
Reception
[edit]The film review in Wiarus weekly (no.15, 1936) expressed a positive opinion.[4] However Michał Sabatowicz (1895-1977) wrote that "unfortunately, it ended where its content should have started. It didn't evoke emotions from the viewers and left the screens. And yet it was a great opportunity to make this final tragedy of the Siberian wandering more vivid. Slavgorod, taiga, Klyukvennaya, Krasnoyarsk - mass graves - burials of hundreds of bodies in the moonlight - terrible nights and longing days, escapes, steppes, return to the fighting Poland and a rifle in hands again - this is a topic that would have captivated even this generation that is slowly getting to know us. However, the opportunity was not taken."[5]
Cast
[edit]- Adam Brodzisz ... Lieutenant (porucznik) Stefan Winiarski
- Eugeniusz Bodo ... soldier Władek
- Krystyna Ankwicz ... Janka, wife of the lieutenant, granddaughter of a Polish insurgent
- Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski ... Imperial Russian Guards officer
- Lala Górska ... Lieutenant's daughter Zosia
- Jan Bonecki
- Feliks Chmurkowski ... Engineer Krysicki, volunteer
- Mieczysław Cybulski ... Roman Kłosewicz, Russian student
- Stanisław Daniłowicz ... Feliks Bochenek, a soldier who writes the memoir
- Ludwik Fritsche, grandpa Matuszewski, member of the January Uprising
- Stanisław Grolicki
- Stefan Hnydziński
- Eugeniusz Koszutski
- Jan Kurnakowicz ... Stiopa
- Żenia Magierówna
- Jerzy Roland
- Leon Wyrwicz, soldier Ziuńcio
References
[edit]- ^ Bohaterowie Sybiru at the Internet Polish Movie Database (in Polish)
- ^ a b "Bohaterowie Sybiru"
- ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 1 (9) pp.24-26
- ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 2 (10) pp.81-82
- ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 2 (10) pp. 14