
March 1945. After crossing the Oder River, one of the Polish Army units heading for Berlin encounters resistance from German defensive formations. After a fierce exchange of fire, a doctor operates on seriously wounded soldiers. Private Józef Łopuch helps him in the field hospital and also serves as a barber. Łopuch, who despite sending over twenty letters has received no reply from his wife Sabina, composes another letter assuring his wife that although war is a nasty business, nothing can happen to him, as he was born in a forge...
Józef Łopuch
Sabina, żona Łopucha
Wiktor Mucha, drugi mąż Sabiny
Chudzina, żona listonosza

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ksiądz
Wojtasik
chirurg
pełnomocnik do spraw reformy rolnej
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