September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Henryk Talar
Tadeusz
Ewa Borowik
Katarzyna
Edmund Fetting
Professor
Jerzy Kamas
Major "Kazimierz"
Emil Karewicz
Lieutenant "Florian"
Anna Milewska
Tadeusz and Witek's mother
Erwin Nowiaszak
Szulc
Andrzej Precigs
Witek
Mieczysław Voit
Samuel Blum
Wiesław Gołas
Soldier
Eugeniusz Kamiński
Resistance fighter
Katarzyna Łaniewska
Fugitive
