How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.

• Tadeusz ChmielewskiDirector
• Tadeusz ChmielewskiScreenplay
• Jerzy MatuszkiewiczOriginal Music Composer

• Marian KociniakFranciszek Dolas
• Janina BorońskaElżbieta
• Adam CyprianGulke's Brother
• Wirgiliusz GryńJózek Kryska
• Zdzisław KuźniarDimo Stojadinovic
• Józef ŁodyńskiStoker
• Jarosław SkulskiColonel
• Tomasz ZaliwskiYugoslavian Officer
• Elżbieta StarosteckaSinger
• Emil KarewiczGestapo Officer in Austria
• Henryk ŁapińskiWladysław Wachocki
• Stanisław MilskiGerman General