Colonel Kwiatkowski

Colonel Kwiatkowski
PolishPułkownik Kwiatkowski
Directed byKazimierz Kutz
Written byJerzy Stefan Stawiński
StarringMarek Kondrat, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Renata Dancewicz
CinematographyGrzegorz Kędzierski
Music byJan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
Running time
123 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

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 [pl], a Polish anti-Soviet resistance member who assumed a false identity of "Wojciech Kossowski" to infiltrate the Polish People's Army.[3]

Plot

Just after the end of World War II, 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

  1. ^ Derek Elley, "Colonel Kwiatkowski". Variety, July 29, 1996.
  2. ^ a b Pułkownik Kwiatkowski at the Polish Internet Movie Database (in Polish)
  3. ^ "Wyborcza.pl". lublin.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2021-05-07.


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