A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
as Agnieszka
as Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk
as Jerzy Burski
as Jerzy Burski (young)
as Witek
as Michalak
as Jodła
as Hanka Tomczyk
as Editor
as TV Editor
as Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP
as Sound Man
as Agnieszka's Father
as Museum Worker
as Hanka's Husband
as UB Colonel
as Colonel's Secretary
as Blonde
as Judge
as Prosecutor
as
as Marcin Pawlusiak
as Engineer Moniak
as Zakopane Houseekeper
as Chronicle Sound Man
as Mieczysław Hertz
as ZMP Meeting Chairman
as Agnieszka's Driver
as Photojournalist in Okęcie
as Boardroom Member
as Construction Technician
as Marysia's Guardian
as Jan Wołodkiewicz
as Film Director (uncredited)
as Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)
as Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)
as Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)
as Worker (uncredited)
as Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)
as Judge (uncredited)
as Chronicle Narrator (voice)
as Record Beating Announcer (voice)
as Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)
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