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LEGIONS (LEGIONY)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
 
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Completed - POLISH - Epic, Historical, Drama - 140 minutes

Log Line

A legendary moment in history serves as a spectacular background to a universal story of love, youth, struggle, and victory. Of a generation that brought back the country's independence after over a century.

Synopsis

A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarists army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women's League member - Ola, and Tadek, her fiancee, a member of Shooting Team. Apart from fictitious characters whose stories were modeled on the biographies of real legionnaires, many historical figures appear in the film. Among them: Brigadier Józef Pilsudski, Lieutenant Stanislaw Kaszubski, pseud. "King" and many others. The film focuses on the Legion's combat trail from1914-1916, from the departure from Oleandry to the battle of Kosciuchnowka and show the most dramatic cards of the legionary epic, including the famous attack of uhlans at Rokitna - one of the most spectacular scenes in the film.

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Country(ies) : POLAND

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