"In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man."
Marek Frąckowiak
as Bogdan Piotrowski
Zofia Rysiówna
as Bogdan's Mother
Ewa Lemańska
as Irena Wawrzyniakowa
Maria Kaniewska
as Kozłowska
Zofia Bajuk
as Błędkowa
Wacław Kowalski
as Hryncewicz
Jerzy Łapiński
as Błędek
Zygmunt Malawski
as Krupowicz
Stanisław Michalski
as Police Chief
Stanisław Niwiński
as Władysław Wawrzyniak
Wirgiliusz Gryń
as Former Police Chief
Andrzej Krasicki
as Kępny
Witold Pyrkosz
as Ignac Żera
Franciszek Trzeciak
as Platoon Leader
Adolf Chronicki
as Kozłowski (uncredited)
Ferdynand Matysik
as Lieutenant (uncredited)
Ryszard Ronczewski
as Man in an Overcoat (uncredited)
Roman Załuski
Screenplay
Leszek Staroń
First Assistant Director
Mieczyslaw Kobek
Jacek Klingbajl
Assistant Director
Mirosława Sada
Janusz Pawłowski
Director of Photography
Zdzisław Kielanowski
Production Design
Jerzy Śnieżawski
Andrzej Przedworski
Interior Designer
Alicja Wasilewska
Costume Design
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Music
Antonio Vivaldi
Grażyna Niewińska
Sound
Roman Kolski
Editor
Jadwiga Raińska-Piotrowska
Makeup Artist
Wiesław Grzelczak
Production Manager
Director
Jerzy Putrament
Novel