''Colonel Kwiatkowski'' () is a

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directed by

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Plot

Just after the end of World War II, Kwiatkowski, a military physician, finds himself in a quarrel with a Soviet officer. To avoid escalation, he pretends that he is a high-ranking UB official. After getting away with it, he is asked by a mother of an AK fighter to help her son from becoming a political prisoner. Kwiatkowski frees the young man by pretending to make an inspection of the facility he is jailed in. The fake officer decides to use the post-war confusion and lawlessness to liberate several other political prisoners.

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* 1996 films Polish comedy-drama films 1990s Polish-language films 1996 comedy-drama films Films set in Poland Films set in Warsaw {{Poland-film-stub