A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

• Zespół Filmowy "Profil"
• Janusz Zakrzeński
• Krzysztof Chamiec
• Józef Fryźlewicz
• Jerzy Kaliszewski
• Emil Karewicz
• Kirił Ławrow
• Edmund Fetting
• Zdzisław Mrożewski