Lotna
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Cast & Crew
Andrzej Wajda
Adam Pawlikowski
Jerzy Moes
Jerzy Pichelski
Mieczyslaw Loza
Bozena Kurowska
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Synopsis
In 1939, as Nazi tanks cross the Polish border, a Polish cavalry captain acquires a beautiful white mare called Lotna from the bedridden owner of a deserted country estate. When the captain is killed, Lotna drags his body back to the remains of his regiment. Lots are drawn for the horse, and she passes into the hands of an ensign whose squadron is temporarily quartered in a village. There the ensign marries a young schoolteacher, Ewa, whom he had known in childhood. As the villagers celebrate the wedding, the depleted Polish infantry passes by in retreat. The following morning Lotna runs off, and the ensign is killed while attempting to retrieve her. A lieutenant next rides Lotna in a desperate attack against the still-advancing Germans. Following the battle, a sergeant-major finds the horse standing by the prostrate body of the lieutenant. He takes her and rides away, but he drives Lotna too hard and breaks one of her legs. The sergeant-major shoots her and buries her under a pine tree.
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Adam Pawlikowski
Jerzy Moes
Jerzy Pichelski
Mieczyslaw Loza
Bozena Kurowska
Roman Polanski
B. Dardzinski
H. Dzieszynski
Wieslaw Golas
Tadeusz Kosudarski
Henryk Hunko
Artur Mlodnicki
Irena Malkiewicz
Karol Rommel
T. Somogi
W. Wozniak
M. Wisniewski
Crew
Stanislaw Adler
Tadeusz Baird
Jan Banucha
Roman Baszkiewicz
Sylwester Checinski
Lena Deptula
Lidia Grys
Jerzy Lipman
Janusz Morgenstern
Janina Niedzwiecka
Karol Rommel
W. Rowicki
Stefan Szczpanski
Andrzej Wajda
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
Roman Wolyniec
Leszek Wronko
Wojciech ^d:zukrowski
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Released in Poland in September 1959.
