Polish spy games in Munich: cigarettes, shadows, and absolutely zero chill.
Direction
Podgórski squeezes dread from every fluorescent-lit corridor.
Acting
Malanowicz's face does what dialogue refuses to.
Director
Waldemar Podgórski
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Ryszard Czernik
Jolanta Bohdal
Krystyna
Tadeusz Janczar
Wojtek
Ignacy Machowski
Drugstore Clerk
Edda Dentges
Rita
Zbigniew Geiger
Plainclothesman
Bolesław Idziak
Interrogator
Elżbieta Jasińska
Secretary
Andrzej Krasicki
Counterintelligence Colonel
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
CIA Employee #1
Holger Mahlich
Hans-Joachim Recknitz
Major Jack Tooth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the Gierek thaw, when Polish cinema briefly tasted Western co-production money—explaining the unusual Munich access.
Malanowicz, fresh off Knife in the Water fame, took this role specifically to avoid being typecast as the young intellectual—ironic given Czernik's own performance of identity.
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