Bohaterowie Sybiru

1936 Polish drama film by Michał Waszyński
  • 4 April 1936 (1936-04-04)
Running time
93 min.CountryPolandLanguagePolish

Bohaterowie Sybiru ("Heroes of Siberia") is a 1936 Polish black and white drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It was preserved until modern times.[1][2]


Plot

In 1918, by the end of World War I a group of Polish POWs from the Austro-Hungarian Army, after leaning about the establishment of the independent Poland form a military detachment, which moves to join the Polish army. After their adventures amid the Russian Civil War they join the Polish 5th Rifle Division.[3][2]

Reception

The film review in Wiarus weekly (no.15, 1936) expressed a positive opinion.[4] However Michał Sabatowicz (1895-1977) wrote that "unfortunately, it ended where its content should have started. It didn't evoke emotions from the viewers and left the screens. And yet it was a great opportunity to make this final tragedy of the Siberian wandering more vivid. Slavgorod, taiga, Klyukvennaya, Krasnoyarsk - mass graves - burials of hundreds of bodies in the moonlight - terrible nights and longing days, escapes, steppes, return to the fighting Poland and a rifle in hands again - this is a topic that would have captivated even this generation that is slowly getting to know us. However, the opportunity was not taken."[5]

Cast

  • Adam Brodzisz ... Lieutenant (porucznik) Stefan Winiarski
  • Eugeniusz Bodo ... soldier Władek
  • Krystyna Ankwicz ... Janka, wife of the lieutenant, granddaughter of a Polish insurgent
  • Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski ... Imperial Russian Guards officer
  • Lala Górska ... Lieutenant's daughter Zosia
  • Jan Bonecki
  • Feliks Chmurkowski ... Engineer Krysicki, volunteer
  • Mieczysław Cybulski ... Roman Kłosewicz, Russian student
  • Stanisław Daniłowicz ... Feliks Bochenek, a soldier who writes the memoir
  • Ludwik Fritsche, grandpa Matuszewski, member of the January Uprising
  • Stanisław Grolicki
  • Stefan Hnydziński
  • Eugeniusz Koszutski
  • Jan Kurnakowicz ... Stiopa
  • Żenia Magierówna
  • Jerzy Roland
  • Leon Wyrwicz, soldier Ziuńcio

References

  1. ^ Bohaterowie Sybiru at the Internet Polish Movie Database (in Polish)
  2. ^ a b "Bohaterowie Sybiru"
  3. ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 1 (9) pp.24-26
  4. ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 2 (10) pp.81-82
  5. ^ Sybirak magazine, 1936, vol. 3, no. 2 (10) pp. 14

External links

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Films directed by Michał Waszyński
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