The Rite of Passage
Overview
After moving with his parents to post-war Kraków, young Ludwik begins studies at one of the city’s prestigious high schools. Amid the ruins of a nation rebuilding, he navigates first love, sexual awakenings, and the turbulent emotions of adolescence. Drawn to his older friend Marek, a hero of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, Ludwik struggles between emulating his idol and rebelling against the injustices and hypocrisies of the new social order. His coming of age becomes inseparable from the political and moral challenges of Poland in 1947.
Movie Details
Languages
Polish
Studio
Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe
Key Crew
Janusz Majewski
Director
Włodzimierz Niderhaus
Producer
Janusz Majewski
Screenplay
Cast
Adam Wróblewski
Ludwik Taschke
Antoni Królikowski
Romek Szrama
Marek Kondrat
Professor Matoń
Wojciech Pszoniak
Major Trzaska
Wiktor Zborowski
Professor 'Syfon'
Agnieszka Michalska
Maria Taschke
Artur Żmijewski
Tadeusz Taschke
Sonia Bohosiewicz
Mecenasowa Halberowa
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Wiliński
Marian Opania
Professor Schlapka
Elżbieta Trzaskoś
Hania Taschke
Grzegorz Warchoł
Janitor Krupa
Dorota Segda
Professor Szumska
Piotr Grabowski
Lieutenant, PE Teacher
Tomasz Dedek
Professor Podkowiński
Dawid Kot
Wieńczysław 'Kujon' Rączka
Mikołaj Jodliński
Tadek Becker
Konrad Michalak
B. 'Bodo' Pudłowski
Maciej Nawrocki
Stefan Motycz
Wojciech Wołk-Łaniewski
Edek Miller
