The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.
Stanislaw Byrcyn-Gasienica
as Himself
Stanisław Wawrytko
as Rescuer
Stanisław Marusarz
as
Stanisław Gąsienica
as Lasa
Ludwik Ziemblic
as Doctor Juraj
Józef Krzeptowski
as
Józef Wawrytko
as
Wojciech Siemion
as Soviet Major
Elzbieta Polkowska
as Bożenka
Tadeusz Gasienica-Giewont
as
Roman Hoły
as
Władysław Gondek
as
