Casts & Crew
Kazimierz Brusikiewicz
Ankieter z administracji
Irena Byrska
Matka Krystyny
Bronisław Pawlik
Profesor
Jerzy Bończak
Andrzej Leski
Magdalena Wołłejko
Krystyna, żona Leskiego
Lidia Korsakówna
Pani Basia, sekretarka profesora
Zenon Laskowik
Fachowiec
Bożena Dykiel
Jańcia Bogacka, służąca Leskich
Janusz Kłosiński
Pan Władzio, dozorca
Jan Himilsbach
Harmonista na weselu Jańci i Czesława
Wiesław Gołas
Fryzjer Czesław, narzeczony Jańci
Also Directed by Józef Gębski
The protagonist of the film "Klawisz" is Jan Doliński, a former guard of the Lublin Castle prison, who held his post during the German occupation and remained in it almost until the prison was liquidated in 1954. He was dismissed because he did not want to join the Polish United Workers' Party.
A report on the exhumation of the remains of the victims of Stalinist repression in the 1930s. The bodies of the prisoners shot by the NKVD in a nearby prison were buried in the area adjacent to the present-day Irkutsk airport.
Józef Gębski's film is a documentary reconstruction of the crime committed by NKVD officers against Polish officers imprisoned in Starobielsk and Kharkov in 1940. Accounts of historians and prosecutors are juxtaposed with the testimony of the then heads of the central and regional NKVD board.
During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology.
