Westerplatte Resists

7.1

Poland

War Drama

91 min

1967

Lech Wojciechowski Andrzej Jurczak Lech Grzmociński Andrzej Grąziewicz Marian Glinka Michał Gazda Józef Fryźlewicz Piotr Fronczewski Stefan Friedmann Wojciech Duryasz Witold Dębicki Kazimierz Dębicki Eugeniusz Kamiński Janusz Kubicki Stefan Szmidt Michał Szewczyk Bogusław Sochnacki Ryszard Ronczewski Sylwester Przedwojewski Włodzimierz Press Lech Ordon Marian Opania Leopold Rene Nowak Klemens Mielczarek Stanisław Michalski Bogumił Antczak Andrzej Zaorski Adam Kwiatkowski Andrzej Krasicki Andrzej Kozak Jerzy Kaczmarek Zbigniew Józefowicz Mariusz Gorczyński Bohdan Ejmont Bogusz Bilewski Tadeusz Pluciński Józef Nowak Tadeusz Schmidt Józef Łodyński Mieczysław Milecki Andrzej Wykrętowicz Roman Wilhelmi Mieczysław Stoor Marian Rułka Bolesław Płotnicki Ryszard Piekarski Janusz Paluszkiewicz Bogdan Niewinowski Józef Nalberczak Zdzisław Mrożewski Jerzy Molga Arkadiusz Bazak

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.