The First Day of Freedom

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

• Aleksander FordDirector
• Bohdan CzeszkoScreenplay

• Beata TyszkiewiczInga Rhode
• Tadeusz ŁomnickiLt. Jan
• Tadeusz FijewskiDoctor Rhode
• Ryszard BaryczMichał
• Krzysztof ChamiecHieronim
• Roman KłosowskiKarol
• Mieczysław StoorPaweł
• Elżbieta CzyżewskaLuzzi Rhode
• Mieczysław KalenikOtto
• Zdzisław LeśniakAnzelm
• Mieczysław MileckiOfficer
• Mikhail PugovkinGrigorij