In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
as Antonina Dziwisz
as Lieutenant Morawski
as Major Zawada "Kąpielowy"
as Communist Witkowska
as Honorata
as Konstanty Dziwisz
as Mira Szajnert
as UB Officer
as Guard
as UB Officer
as Cell-mate
as Officer at Name-Day Party
as Cell Top Dog
as Major Olcha
as Orphanage Manageress
as Officer at Name-Day Party
as Female Prison Officer
as Young Mother
as Dziunia
as Officer on Duty
as Executioner
as Friend at a Party
as Prison Nurse
as Prison Nurse
as Woman in Hospital (uncredited)
as Alleged Victim
as Man at the Place of Antonina's Arrest (uncredited)
as Major UB (uncredited)