Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
Józef Nowak
as Szczęsny
Stanisław Milski
as Szczęsny's Father / Czerwiaczek
Zbigniew Skowroński
as Roman Korbal
Teresa Szmigielówna
as Zocha
Halina Przybylska
as Weronka, Szczęsny's sister
Janina Szydłowska
as Communist
Wojciech Pilarski
as Marusik
Zbigniew Józefowicz
as Jan Gawlikowski
Janusz Ściwiarski
as Sumczak
Stanisław Jasiukiewicz
as Bolesław Gębiński
Jerzy Szpunar
as Rychlik
Hanka Bielicka
as Szamotulska
