"A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life."
Aleksandra Śląska
as Liza
Anna Ciepielewska
as Marta
Janusz Bylczyński
as Capo
Krzesislawa Dubielówna
as Prisoner
Anna Gołębiowska
as Female Prisoner
Barbara Horawianka
as Nurse
Anna Jaraczówna
Maria Kościałkowska
as Guard Inga Weniger
Andrzej Krasicki
as Commission Member
Jan Kreczmar
as Walter
Irena Malkiewicz
as Oberaufseherin Madel
Izabela Olszewska
Leon Pietraszkiewicz
as Lagerkommandant Grabner
Kazimierz Rudzki
Wanda Swaryczewska
as
Zdzisław Szymborski
as SS-Man
Marek Walczewski
as Tadeusz
Barbara Wałkówna
Tadeusz Łomnicki
as Narrator (voice)
Maria Ciesielska
as (uncredited)
Elżbieta Czyżewska
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Anna Dyrka
Stanisław Niwiński
as Prisoner (uncredited
Adam Perzyk
as Prisoner-Painter (uncredited
Sylwester Przedwojewski
as Guard (uncredited)
Bogusław Sochnacki
as Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Maria Wachowiak
Stanisław Zaczyk
as Tadeusz (voice) (uncredited)
Andrzej Munk
Director
Zofia Posmysz
Novel
Krzysztof Winiewicz
Director of Photography
Screenplay
Louise Stjernsward
Costume Design
Zofia Dwornik
Editor
Leonard Mokicz
Set Decoration
Jerzy Szawłowski
Sound
Assistant Director
Teresa Tomaszewska
Makeup Artist
Mieczysław Pośmiechowicz
Wiesława Chojkowska
Andrzej Brzozowski
Tadeusz Baird
Original Music Composer
Wiesław Rutowicz
Camera Operator
Wiesław Grzelczak
Assistant Production Manager
Wilhelm Hollender
Production Manager
Romuald Korczak
Construction Foreman
Tadeusz Jakuczyn
Assistant Camera
Władysław Tomaszewski
Tamara Gawryś
Script Supervisor
Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Stanisław Wisłocki
Conductor
Maria Rutkowska
Assistant Editor
Henryk Wasilewski
Witold Lesiewicz
Tadeusz Wybult
Production Design
Wiktor Woroszylski
Other
Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski
Włodzimierz Kamiński