''Austeria'' (aka ''The Inn'') is a Polish feature

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directed by

Jerzy Kawalerowicz Jerzy Franciszek Kawalerowicz (19 January 1922 – 27 December 2007) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution in 1990 and a deputy in Polish pa ...

, produced by ''Zespół Filmowy "Kadr"'' and released in

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

. ''Austeria'' takes place during the opening days of

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, in the

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province of Galicia. Tag, played by

Franciszek Pieczka Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best ...

, is a

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ish innkeeper whose inn (''austeria'' means inn in the Polish

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) is located near the border with the

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. War has broken out and local civilians are fleeing the advancing Russian Army. A number of refugees have taken shelter in Tag's inn for the night. A group of

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Jews from the neighboring village arrive, followed by an Austrian baroness, and a Hungarian hussar, cut off from his army unit. The film is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by

Julian Stryjkowski Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark; April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, known for his social prose and radical leftist leanings. He was considered one of the best Polish-Jewish writers of the People's Republi ...

, who collaborated with Kawalerowicz on the screenplay.

Cast

as Tag *

Wojciech Pszoniak Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (Polish: ; 2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film actor, film and theatre actor as well as theatre director and pedagogue. He received international recognition for portraying Moritz Welt in Andrzej Wajda's dra ...

as Josele * Jan Szurmiej as the cantor * Ewa Domanska as Asia * Wojciech Standello as the tzaddik *

Liliana Komorowska Liliana Komorowska (born 11 April 1956) is a Polish actress and filmmaker. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1964. Selected filmography Film Television References External links * * 1956 births Living people Actress ...

as Jewdocha *

Szymon Szurmiej Szymon Symcha Szurmiej (18 June 1923 − 16 July 2014) was a Polish actor, director, and general manager of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw. He was a director of the Yiddish Theater of Warsaw. Since Jul ...

as Wilf *

Gołda Tencer Gołda Tencer ( yid. גאָלדע טענצער, born 2 August 1949 in Łódź) is a Polish actress and singer. Gołda Tencer was born to a Jewish family, the daughter of Szmul and Sonia Tencer. In 1971 she graduated from Actors Studio in Warsaw ...

as Blanka * Marek Wilk as Bum Kramer * Gerard Ojeda as the Hungarian officer * Zofia Saretok as the baroness * Stanislaw Igar as Apfelgrun * Feliks Szajnert as Gerson * Mieczysław Bram as Wohl * Jan Hencz as Pritsch

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* 1983 films Polish World War I films Films directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz World War I films set on the Eastern Front 1980s Polish-language films Films set in Austria-Hungary Films about Jews and Judaism {{1980s-Poland-film-stub

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