Colonel Kwiatkowski
Colonel Kwiatkowski (Polish: Pułkownik Kwiatkowski) is a Polish comedy-drama film directed by Kazimierz Kutz.[1] It was released in 1996.[2] The movie is loosely based on post-WW2 life of Tadeusz Ośko, a Polish anti-Soviet resistance member who assumed a false identity of "Wojciech Kossowski" to infiltrate the Polish People's Army.[3]
Colonel Kwiatkowski | |
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Polish | Pułkownik Kwiatkowski |
Directed by | Kazimierz Kutz |
Written by | Jerzy Stefan Stawiński |
Starring | Marek Kondrat, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Renata Dancewicz |
Cinematography | Grzegorz Kędzierski |
Music by | Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz |
Running time | 123 minutes |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Plot
Just after the end of the World War 2, Kwiatkowski, a military physician, finds himself in a quarrel with a Soviet officer. To avoid escalation, he pretends that he is a high-ranking UB official. After getting away with it, he is asked by a mother of an AK fighter to help her son from becoming a political prisoner. Kwiatkowski frees the young man by pretending to make an inspection of the facility he is jailed in. The fake officer decides to use the post-war confusion and lawlessness to liberate several other political prisoners.[2]
References
- Derek Elley, "Colonel Kwiatkowski". Variety, July 29, 1996.
- Pułkownik Kwiatkowski at the Polish Internet Movie Database (in Polish)
- "Wyborcza.pl". lublin.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2021-05-07.