A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Camera | Jerzy Wójcik | Director of Photography |
Directing | Andrzej Wajda | Director |
Writing | Jerzy Andrzejewski | Screenplay |
Writing | Andrzej Wajda | Screenplay |
Editing | Halina Nawrocka | Editor |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Sieńska | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Katarzyna Chodorowicz | Costume Design |
Sound | Bohdan Bieńkowski | Sound |
Writing | Jerzy Andrzejewski | Novel |
Directing | Anita Janeczkowa | Assistant Director |
Directing | Jan Włodarczyk | Assistant Director |
Directing | Andrzej Wróbel | Assistant Director |
Art | Roman Mann | Production Design |
Directing | Janusz Morgenstern | First Assistant Director |
Camera | Wiesław Zdort | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Krzysztof Winiewicz | Camera Operator |
Camera | Zygmunt Krusznicki | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Jerzy Szurowski | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Bogdan Myśliński | Assistant Camera |
Art | Jarosław Świtoniak | Assistant Production Design |
Art | Leszek Wajda | Assistant Production Design |
Art | Marian Kowaliński | Assistant Production Design |
Sound | Filip Nowak | Music Arranger |
Sound | Filip Nowak | Conductor |
Editing | Irena Choryńska | Assistant Editor |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Ber | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Halina Zajac | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Production | Stanisław Adler | Production Manager |
Production | Ludwik Hager | Assistant Production Manager |
Production | Zygmunt Wójcik | Unit Manager |
Production | Michał Sosiński | Unit Manager |