GRAVE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER [1927]
year:
- 1927
release date:
- 16 XII 1927
runtime:
- 77 min
directed by:
- Ryszard Ordyński
written by:
- Ryszard Ordyński, Seweryn Romin
director of photography:
- Antoni Wawrzyniak
cast:
- Jerzy Leszczyński [Michał Łazowski], Maria Malicka [Nelly], Nina Olida [Wanda], Konstancja Bednarzewska [Łazowski’s mother], Maria Gorczyńska [księżna Turchanowa], Leokadia Pancewiczowa [Ksenia], Władysław Walter [Ożóg], Jerzy Marr [Piotr Głowiński], Kazimierz Justian [Commissioner Simonow], Wiesław Gawlikowski [Commissioner Szapkin], Leon Łuszczewski [Iwan Kiryłłow], Seweryna Broniszówna [Natasza], Mary Alma [Tania]
produced by:
- Star-Film
About the film
A patriotic melodrama with a rich historical and moral backdrop.
The First World War. At Krakow train station, Captain Łazowski bids farewell to his wife Wanda and his beloved daughter, Nelly, and goes off to the front. Soon after, he is captured and the family have no news about him. Wanda begins to doubt that he will ever be saved, but Nelly still has optimistic thoughts. Meanwhile, Łazowski, through the love of a Russian girl, escapes from a Siberian village. He goes to the Crimea to Duchess Turchanowa. Using the documents of a Russian who committed suicide out of desperation for his lost Russia, Łazowski finds work in a munitions factory under a new name. Compromised by Commissioner Simonow, he escapes to Poland and is killed when a stray bullet hits him at the border.
Jan Słodowski, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
