
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Józef Nowak
Szczęsny

Stanisław Milski
Szczęsny's Father / Czerwiaczek

Zbigniew Skowroński
Roman Korbal

Teresa Szmigielówna
Zocha

Halina Przybylska
Weronka, Szczęsny's sister

Janina Szydłowska
Communist

Wojciech Pilarski
Marusik

Zbigniew Józefowicz
Jan Gawlikowski
Janusz Ściwiarski
Sumczak

Stanisław Jasiukiewicz
Bolesław Gębiński

Jerzy Szpunar
Rychlik

Hanka Bielicka
Szamotulska

Mirosław Szonert
Woyda

Tadeusz Kondrat
Lubart
Ruth Taru-Kowalska
Lubartowa