I Died So I Could Live

Original title: Umarłem, aby żyć

Duration: 88 min

Release date: 1984-09-08

IMDB

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.

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Umarłem, aby żyć

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Andrzej Grabarczyk

Andrzej Grabarczyk

Halina Łabonarska

Halina Łabonarska

as doctor in Pawiak

Zygmunt Hübner

as professor Pytel

Marek Walczewski

Marek Walczewski

as doctor in Pawiak

Wojciech Wysocki

Wojciech Wysocki

as doctor Leśniak

Anna Ciepielewska

Anna Ciepielewska

as Wójcik's mother

as housekeeper of ill professor

Joanna Jędryka

as sister Salomea

Janusz Bukowski

Janusz Bukowski

as major Wróbel

Michał Juszczakiewicz

Michał Juszczakiewicz

as wounded patient

Eugeniusz Kujawski

Eugeniusz Kujawski

Bronisław Pawlik

Bronisław Pawlik

as Bruzda's father

Mirosława Marcheluk

Mirosława Marcheluk

as Bruzda's mother

as Pytel's wife

as nurse assisting Leśniak

Jacek Borkowski

Jacek Borkowski

Alfred Freudenheim

Alfred Freudenheim

as Gestapo agent

Jerzy Kramarczyk

Jerzy Kramarczyk

as AK soldier fixing the lift

Marek Lewandowski

Marek Lewandowski

as German code expert

Piotr Machalica

Piotr Machalica

as prisoner Kmicic

Stanisław Niwiński

Stanisław Niwiński

Marek Nowakowski

Marek Nowakowski

as ambulance driver

Aleksander Trąbczyński

Aleksander Trąbczyński

as gestapo agent

as ill professor

Andrzej Szenajch

Andrzej Szenajch

as AK soldier fixing the lift

Karol Strasburger

Karol Strasburger

as Gestapo officer

Stanisław Tomaszewski-Miedza

Stanisław Tomaszewski-Miedza

as real "Wójcik"

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Stanisław Jędryka

Stanisław Jędryka

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