How I Unleashed World War II
How I Unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa". It was shot in Sochi, Baku, Poświętne and Łódź, among other places.
The film was divided into three parts:
- Część I: Ucieczka
- Część II: Za bronią
- Część III: Wśród swoich
Originally black and white, it was digitally colorized in 2001 by the Hollywood company Dynacs Digital Studios, as requested by the Studio Filmowe "Oko" and TV Polsat.
The movie tells the story of a Polish soldier Franciszek Dolas, who - as a result of comical coincidences - is convinced that he started the Second World War. Trying to redeem himself at all costs, he constantly gets into new trouble. In doing so, he finds himself on different war fronts and eventually returns to Poland.Cast
- Marian Kociniak - Franek Dolas
- Wirgiliusz Gryń - Józek Kryska
- Leonard Pietraszak - airman in stalag
- Stanisław Milski - German general
- Kazimierz Talarczyk - Woydyłło
- Jerzy Block - stationmaster
- Andrzej Gawroński - Helmut, Gestapo man
- Emil Karewicz - Gestapo officer
- Henryk Łapiński - Władzio Wachocki
- Andrzej Herder - Hans, Gestapo man
- Leon Pietraszkiewicz - Herbert Gulke
- Jerzy Rogalski - Jędrzej Grzyb, peasant
- Mirosław Szonert - gendarme
- Mieczysław Stoor - Gestapo man
- Jarosław Skulski - colonel in the Polish embassy in Belgrad
- Tomasz Zaliwski - Yugoslav officer
- Elżbieta Starostecka - singer in the inn
- Jerzy Moes - lieutenant Regulski
- Andrzej Krasicki - French ship's captain
- Wojciech Zagórski - the Turk enrolling on the German ship
- Janina Borońska - Elżbieta
- Ludwik Benoit - innkeeper
- Janusz Kłosiński - innkeeper
- Jan Paweł Kruk - sailor
- Zdzisław Kuźniar - Dino Stojadinović
- Józef Łodyński - stoker on the Yugoslav ship
- Krystyna Borowicz - the brothel owner
- Piotr Fronczewski - Italian soldier
- Wacław Kowalski - Kiedros, sergeant in French Foreign Legion
- Jan Świderski - Letoux, captain in Foreign Legion
- Leonard Andrzejewski - soldier in Foreign Legion
- Kazimierz Rudzki - captain Ralf Peacoock
- Lech Ordon - sergeant Hopkins
- Zdzisław Maklakiewicz - Italian soldier
- Jerzy Duszyński - Italian soldier
- Marian Rułka - British soldier
- Joanna Jędryka - Teresa
- Małgorzata Pritulak - Mirella
- Kazimierz Fabisiak - father Dominik, prior in a monastery
- Konrad Morawski - Matula
- Zygmunt Zintel - father Sebastian
- Halina Buyno-Łoza - Jóźwiakowa
- Stanisław Gronkowski - partisan "Wilk"
- Aleksander Fogiel - Jóźwiak
- Eugeniusz Kamiński - Gestapo man
- Ludwik Kasendra - brother Florian
