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Basil
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
The Birthday
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
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Andrzej Łapicki Stanisław Bielecki
Witold Pyrkosz Antoni Jakubowicz
Kazimierz Kaczor Karczewski
Gabriela Kownacka Jadźka
Hanna Skarżanka babcia Jerzego
Jolanta Grusznic Teresa
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