Colonel Wolodyjowski

In 1668, Colonel Michał Wołodyjowski (Tadeusz Łomnicki) has retired to a monastery when he is called back to active duty. He takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier, which Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies are pressing from the other side. Jerzy Hoffman, adapting Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel, fills the frame with the colonel's small, upright figure, a soldier in a robe's shadow, waiting for the summons.