CAST:
Jerzy Radziwilowicz (Mateusz Birkut / Maciej Tomczyk),
Krystyna Janda (Agnieszka),
Tadeusz Lomnicki (Jerzy Burski),
Jacek Lomnicki (Burski),
Michal Tarkowski (Wincenty Witek)

SCRIPT:
Aleksander Scibor-Rylski

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Edward Klosinski

MUSIC:
Andrzej Korzyński

EDITING:
Halina Prugar-Ketling

SCENOGRAPHY:
Maria Osiecka-Kuminek

COSTUMES:
Lidia Rzeszewska,
Wieslawa Starska

Synopsis:

Agnieszka is a young student of film directing who is currently researching a documentary about the mason Birkut for her thesis. He was a working class hero of the 1950’s who disappeared without a trace. During her research and discussions withhis friends, wife and director of the documentary, she slowly finds out the reality about the hero’s true life and his public image that certain people created. After the myth and propaganda make room for the unpleasant truth, Agnieszka has a close encounter with censorship.

b/w and color, 165'