Pilsudski

synopsis

It is the year 1901. Jozef Pilsudski 'Ziuk' makes a brazen escape from a mental institution and becomes the head of the Polish independence underground. Relentless in the battlefield, in his private life he succumbs to passion, torn between two women in his life - his wife and his lover. Pilsudski, who is considered to be a terrorist by the conservative members of the Polish Socialist Party, is not going to stop at anything - together with his companions he will organize assassinations of tsarist officials and top officers, smuggle bombs or brazen an assault on a train to make his dream about independent Poland come true. The year 1914 is approaching and Ziuk sees new opportunities to achieve the impossible.