Hubal is a

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directed by . It was released in 1973.

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 Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (; 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military officer, politician and ''de facto'' leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989. He was the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party b ...

, 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 Major Henryk Dobrzański (22 June 1897 – 30 April 1940) was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan. He fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918, the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921 and the Polish Sept ...

, 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 Ryszard Filipski (17 July 1934 – 22 October 2021) was a Polish actor and theatre and film director. He established the monodrama theatre ' in Kraków (1966–1981). Ryszard Filipski is known for '' Hubal (1973)'', ''Zamach stanu'' (1981) an ...

as major

"Hubal" * Małgorzata Potocka as "Tereska" *

Tadeusz Janczar Tadeusz Janczar (; 25 April 1926 – 31 October 1997) was a Polish film actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1952 and 1983. Partial filmography * ''Zaloga'' (1952) - Brzozowski * ''Zolnierz zwyciestwa'' (1953) - Franek * '' Five Boys fro ...

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 General Leopold Okulicki (noms de guerre ''Kobra'', ''Niedźwiadek''; 1898 – 1946) was a general of the Polish Army and the last commander of the anti-Nazi underground Home Army during World War II. He was arrested after the war by the Sovi ...

"Miller" * Tadeusz Schmidt *

Kazimierz Wichniarz Kazimierz Wichniarz (18 January 1915 in Posen(now Poznan) - 26 June 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish film and theatre actor. In 1974 he starred in the Academy Award-nominated film ''The Deluge'' under Jerzy Hoffman. He is interred at the Powązki M ...

as priest Edward Ptaszyński * Jerzy Aleksander Braszka * Henryk Giżycki * Bolesław Idziak * Jerzy Korsztyn

References

External links

* 1973 films Polish historical films 1970s Polish-language films World War II films based on actual events 1970s historical films Films about Polish resistance during World War II Polish war films {{Poland-film-stub