Operation Danube

Operacja Dunaj, 2009, 105 min.
Operation Danube (2009)

Production

Director Jacek Glomb
Screenplay Jacek Kondracki, Robert Urbanski
Cinematography Jacek Petrycki
Music Bartosz Straburzynski
Art Director Malgorzata Bulanda, Marek Warszawski, Milan Bycek
Producer Wlodzimierz Niderhaus

Cast

Andrea Capkova, Petra’s Mother Eva Halubova
Oskar Jiri Menzel
Captain Czeslaw Grazel Zbigniew Zamachowski
Major Czeslawa Grazlowa Joanna Gonschorek
Gun-layer Florian Sapiezynski Maciej Stuhr
Romek Przemyslaw Bluszcz
Gustaw Jaroslav Dusek
Petra Martha Issova
Corporal Romek Kwasny Przemyslaw Bluszcz
Loader Jasiu Jamrozy Maciej Nawrocki

Story

August 1968. A unit of the Polish People’s Republic Army is sent on a “brotherly help mission” to Czechoslovakia. The tank unit makes sluggish progress and the tank “Ladybird” goes missing just after crossing the border. Major Grazlowa, accompanied by her jealous husband, gets on a motorbike and conducts a chase in an effort to avoid being punished for the disorder in her unit. At the same time, she wants to catch and humiliate her lover, Romek, who shortly before the invasion turned her down…