The Death of Captain Pilecki

Overview

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 15, 2006

Original language

Polish

Spoken languages

Polish

Countries

Poland

Production

TVP,Telewizja Polska

Cast

Tomasz Preniasz-Struś,Aleksandra Konieczna,Aleksandra Godlewska,Grzegorz Królewski,Marek Probosz,Agnieszka Mandat,Andrzej Purzycki,Witold Bałusz,Kamil Krawczykowski,Piotr Proboszand 29 more

Director

Ryszard Bugajski

Writer

Ryszard Bugajski

Cinematography

Piotr Śliskowski

Music

Paweł Szymański

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0834590