Olympics 40
movie
Released June 23, 1980
Overview
The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole proposes and Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a croaching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot find out. Finally the Germans realize the idea and the Polish chief is sent to concentration camp but the others disobey the orders.
Cast
Mariusz Benoit
as
Piotr
Jerzy Bończak
as
Jacques
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Tadeusz Galia
as
Leon
Krzysztof Janczar
as
Andrzej
Ryszard Kotys
as
strażnik Schlappke
Igor Przegrodzki
as
major Hans von Klabe, komendant obozu
Wojciech Pszoniak
as
Otto Schultze
Marek Siudym
as
Jan Mroczek
Bolesław Abart
as
strażnik Fritz
Aleksander Kalinowski
as
O'Brian
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Leonard Szewczuk
as
Francis
Jan Hencz
as
starszy grupy Belgów
Crew
Andrzej Kotkowski
as
Director
Andrzej Korzyński
as
Music
Norbert Zbigniew Mędlewski
as
Sound
Irena Choryńska
as
Editor
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Michał Komar
as
Screenplay
Andrzej Kotkowski
as
Screenplay
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Aurelia Łopatowska
as
Makeup Artist
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Edmund Siekierski
as
Production Design
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Zbigniew Ostoja-Zagórski
as
Production Design
Witold Adamek
as
Director of Photography