Zdzisław Pacak- Kuźmirski

As the Officer’s Honour Code says "Officer never leaves its soldiers and goes under captivity along with them". Pacak was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IIc Woldenberg. He organised three escapes. Each of them was very precisely and skilfully contrived, but only the last one was successful. Carrying wooden guns and paper pouch, painted with shoe-polish, he went out through the main gate of the camp. Cutting through occupied country he got to Warsaw, where became deputy commander of AK (Home Army) Headquarter "Osa-Kosa".

Jan Zumbach

An Ace and a commander of the legendary No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, in the rank of Squadron Leader, and then as the Wing Commander. Decorated with Virtuti Militari, two times with Distinguished Flying Cross, and four times with Polish Cross of Valour. He earned the nickname "Donald" because all of their aircraft carried a cartoon of Donald Duck with baseball bat on the fuselage. Zumbach was a rebellious person and adventurer. After the war he became a smuggler and a mercenary, but always helped nations willing to liberate from "parasites".

Bronisław "Bruno" Hellwig

This is a story about a soldier of Battalion “Parasol” (Umbrella), Bronisław "Bruno" Hellwig. He was one of the best combat drivers and participated in numerous spectacular military actions in German-occupied Warsaw. The movie shows the moments of a very close call that he experienced and that influenced his life. In the movie, Hanna Hellwig-Stańczuk, "Bruno’s" daughter tells the story about her father.

Józef Beck

The movie presents the last Foreign Minister of the Second Republic of Poland in the background of pre-war political situation in Europe. Minister Beck, interned by Romanian authorities in 1939, recalls the factors responsible for the outbreak of World War II that made him die in exile. Inevitability of events and illusive hope become clearer with hindsight. This point of view shows us political play-acting that took place 75 years ago.

ORP Orzeł. Jan Grudziński

During the 1939 Defensive War, Polish submarine ORP Orzeł was on the Baltic Sea, although there were signs of conflict onboard. When the ship entered the harbour of Tallin, in order to go ashore commander Kłoczkowski and his crew were unlawfully interned. The command then was taken by Jan Grudziński. The new commander was one of the organisers of an escape. The crew put ORP Orzeł to the open sea on the 17 September. The submarine had neither maps nor navigational instruments onboard. Defenceless, they went through Danish straits heading for United Kingdom. The journey over the North Sea started on 7 October and after a week the crew luckily reached the Scottish shore.