''Czas honoru'' (English: Days of Honour) is a Polish

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, broadcast on

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since 7 September 2008 to 23 November 2014, on STV Glasgow from 2 June 2014 and

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from 16 January 2015.

Plot

Set in German-occupied Poland 1939-1944 (series I, II, III and IV) and in post-war Poland 1945-1946 (series V and VI), the series tells a story of Union of Armed Struggle/ Armia Krajowa/

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soldiers commonly referred to as ''

cichociemni ''Cichociemni'' (; the "Silent Unseen") were elite special-operations paratroopers of the Polish Army in exile, created in Great Britain during World War II to operate in occupied Poland (''Cichociemni Spadochroniarze Armii Krajowej''). Kazimi ...

''. The script was inspired by the stories of Polish soldiers who during

underwent training in the UK in order to return to German-occupied Poland and partake in the underground struggle for independence. The series also touches upon the challenges faced by the German

military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from a ...

organisation Abwehr, the intelligence agency of the SS Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (SD), the Nazi

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commonly known as the

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and the infiltration of the Union of Armed Struggle/Armia Krajowa by the Abwehr and the SD. The series also briefly covers the activities of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (

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) and the

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. Until 2013 six series of 13 episodes each were made. Series I, II and III take place in the spring, summer and autumn of 1941. Series IV covers the period from April to June 1944. The action takes place mainly in Warsaw, including the Warsaw Ghetto, however some parts of the series are set in other areas of the General Government, as well as England, Italy and the Third Reich. Series V tells the story of the final period of World War II and shortly after its end, from April to June 1945, and is set in the newly instated People's Republic of Poland,

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and the American zone of the Allied-occupied

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. The action of series I to VI unfolds in the chronological order. Series VII, however, takes it back to 1944 and shows the events of the

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, the 70th anniversary of which were celebrated in 2014.

Cast

* Jan Wieczorkowski as Władek Konarski * Antoni Pawlicki as Janek Markiewicz * Maciej Zakościelny as Bronek Wojciechowski *

Jakub Wesołowski Jakub Wesołowski, also known as Kuba Wesołowski, (born 7 May 1985, Warsaw) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as journalist. Life and career He was born on 7 May 1985 in Warsaw. He is a graduate of the Marie Curie-Skłodows ...

as Michał Konarski * Krystian Wieczorek as Martin Halbe (series 1 to 3) * Piotr Adamczyk as Lars Rainer (from series 2) * Katarzyna Gniewkowska as Maria Konarska *

Jan Englert Jan Aleksander Englert (born 11 May 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1957. Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre in Warsaw. Biography In 1957 at the age of 14 he made h ...

as Czesław Konarski (series 1) * Robert Gonera as Aleksey Dykov (series 4) * Maja Ostaszewska (series 1) and Magdalena Różczka (from series 2) as Wanda Ryszkowska * Agnieszka Więdłocha as Lena Sajkowska * Piotr Żurawski as Romek Sajkowski * Krzysztof Globisz as Leon Sajkowski (series 1 to 3) *

Anna Romantowska Anna Romantowska (born 16 May 1950) is a Polish film and theatre actress. She has been married to the Polish actor and director Krzysztof Kolberger Krzysztof Marek Kolberger (13 August 1950 – 7 January 2011) was a Polish actor and theatre ...

as Sabina Sajkowska (series 1 to 3) * Ewa Wencel as Helena * Karolina Gorczyca as Wiktoria "Ruda" Rudnicka

Episodes

Series 1 Episode 1 Spring 1941. A small division of Polish soldiers are completing their training in England and are about to be parachuted back to occupied Poland in order to carry out sabotage actions against the Germans. The members of the division are: Czesław Konarski, major of the Polish Armed Forces; his two sons - Władek, sportsman and lieutenant of the Polish Armed Forces, and Michał, medical student; Jan Markiewicz, an architecture graduate from Praga in Warsaw, and Bronek Woyciechowski - before the war the only heir to the fortune of a Warsaw businessman. In the meantime the Gestapo are setting a trap...

Production

Reception

The series broadcast by

Telewizja Polska Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in English as the public Polish Television is a Polish state media corporation. It is the largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s. Sinc ...

enjoyed huge popularity in Poland and the licence to screen it has been purchased by broadcasters in Italy, China,Polish WWII Drama Series Bought by Italian and Chinese TV
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and

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References

External links

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The series available to watch online for free at VOD.pl (in Polish)

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