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Synopsis
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Zygmunt Kęstowicz
Cast
Adolf Chronicki
Cast
Emil Karewicz
Cast
Ignacy Machowski
Cast
Tadeusz Jurasz
Cast
Bolesław Płotnicki
Cast
Bohdan Ejmont
Cast
Marian Łącz
Cast
Zdzisław Szymański
Cast
Halina Przybylska
Cast
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Director
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Writer

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