''Szwadron'' is a Polish
historical film
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directed by
Juliusz Machulski. It was released in 1993. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
66th Academy Awards
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, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
Period war drama. A highly fictionalised account on the exploits of the Russian Imperial Army Regiment of Dragoons of Novorossia and Don Cossacks during Polish
January Uprising
The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...
in 1863. A young Russian Count Fyodor Yeryiomin joins his regiment as a lieutenant in May 1863. He finds friends, enemies and love ... but, above all, he finds doubts.
Historical inaccuracies
Apart from being generally inaccurate on the actual history of any of the squadrons of the Regiment of Dragoons of Novorossia itself, the movie shows total lack of historical accuracy on technical, tactical and political levels. Apart from the regiment's uniforms (but not the hue of the horses, which was all black at the time), the only half-truth is that the commander of the 4th Squadron major Tchutya actually ordered his troops to ignite the village of Yourkowicy on 20 October 1863 – upon "insurgents" retreating in to the village and starting firing at his troops from the mostly wooden huts of its inhabitants.
[Potto A. The History of the Regiment of Dragoons of Novorossia. pp. 295–366. In Russian.]
Cast
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Aleksander Bednarz
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as Petersilge
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Grzegorz Damiecki
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Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
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Biography
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu studied theater and film at the Sorbonne Paris III and began his career in film at the age of 25 by making appearances with accl ...
as Franek Bata
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Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
as Dobrowolski
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Wojciech Klata
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as Symcha (as Wojtek Klata)
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Andrzej Konic as General
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Maciej Kozłowski as Kozlow
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Agnieszka Krukówna as Weronka
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Katarzyna Lochowska as Emilia
See also
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List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
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1993 films
Polish historical films
1990s Polish-language films
Films directed by Juliusz Machulski
1990s historical films
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