Hubal

History

According to the director's recollections, at the beginning of the 1970s, he was summoned to the Ministry of Culture, where he was presented with a ready-made script by Jan Józef Szczepański, at the same time offering to make a film. Bohdan Poręba accepted the offer, but he forced the removal of a few scenes (the commander's romance with a peasant woman and the execution of German prisoners of war). The finished film did not avoid censorship problems – the intention was to cut out a scene from the morning mass on Christmas, during which the hymn Boże, coś Polskę is chanted. The director avoided it thanks to the opinion of the Minister of National Defense, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, who succinctly praised the film after an improvised screening. The film has no scriptwriter in the lead, because Jan Józef Szczepański withdrew after the changes introduced by the director.

Plot

Legendary Hubal – major Henryk Dobrzański, in spite of Nazi occupation in 1939 does not surrender and still fights with the enemy with a group of his faithful soldiers.

Cast

Ryszard Filipski as major Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal"

Małgorzata Potocka as Marianna Cel "Tereska"

Tadeusz Janczar as captain Maciej Kalenkiewicz "Kotwicz"

Emil Karewicz as rittmeister Stanisław Sołtykiewicz

Andrzej Kozak as Maruszewski

Zygmunt Malanowicz as priest Ludwik Mucha

Stanisław Niwiński

Józef Nowak as colonel Leopold Okulicki "Miller"

Tadeusz Schmidt

Kazimierz Wichniarz as priest Edward Ptaszyński

Jerzy Aleksander Braszka

Henryk Giżycki

Bolesław Idziak

Jerzy Korsztyn