

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is secretly abducted from the Primate’s Palace and sent into solitary confinement at Stoczek Warmiński, accompanied by Father Stanisław, recently freed from Rawicz, and Sister Leonia, coerced from Grudziądz, forming an unlikely retinue in his enforced exile. As state spies and the camp commandant conspire to break the Primate’s resolve, Father Stanisław risks everything to smuggle word of Wyszyński’s whereabouts to the outside, hoping to foil the regime’s darkest “third variant.”
Directed by Teresa Kotlarczyk
User score
5 votes
Released
September 22, 2000
1h 43m
Polish

Andrzej Seweryn
Stefan Wyszyński/Molenda

Maja Ostaszewska
Maria Leonia Graczyk

Zbigniew Zamachowski
Stanisław Skorodecki

Krzysztof Wakuliński
Colonel

Grzegorz Sikora
UB Commander

Mariusz Benoit
General Kozyra

Jerzy Trela
Stanisław's Father

Henryk Talar
Bolesław Bierut

Mariusz Jakus
Narwicz

Joanna Orzeszkowska
Prison Guard in Grudziądz

Maciej Wojdyła
UB Officer #1

Piotr Adamczyk
Kozyra's Assistant
Andrzej Bogusz
Priest Goździkiewicz

Andrzej Blumenfeld
Herbert

Dorota Kwiatkowska
Madonna

Krzysztof Banaszyk
UB Officer #2

Krzysztof Bień
Prison Guard in Stoczek Warmiński

Andrzej Dębski
Priest Dębek

Tadeusz Falana
Jan Pochopień

Józef Fryźlewicz
Wit Brzycki