Polish Post Office with the media patron of the film "Orlęta. Grodno '39 "
September 9 this year. The film "Orlęta. Grodno '39" enters the cinemas. Poczta Polska is a media patron of this work with great educational values. The dramatic picture of the war with the Soviets seen through the eyes of a twelve -year -old boy - Leon can be an excellent inspiration for history lessons dedicated to World War II and the September campaign, as well as arousing curiosity, especially the young recipient about those events.
On the day of the start of the school year, on September 1, 1939, the building of his school was bombed by German aircraft. For Leosia, Tadek, Ewelina and thousands of Polish children, the beginning of war will become a school of accelerated puberty, a confrontation with a dramatic story written by adults.
On September 17, 1939, under Soviet-German agreements, the Red Army enters Poland. On September 20, he plans to occupy Grodno. City defenders begin a hopeless, heroic fight. Few military branches are assisted by civilians, primarily schoolchildren. It is children and young people who are heroically defending Grodno, becoming victims of the unusual cruelty of the occupiers.
Krzysztof Łukaszewicz's film "Orlęta. Grodno '39" is the first film production about the aggression of Soviet troops in Poland in September 1939 showing the history of the heroic struggle of the residents of Grodno with the Russian invader.
The main character of the film "Orlęta Grodno '39" is 12-year-old Leoś Rojst (Feliks Matecki), spending her childhood in a pre-war, multicultural Grodno.
Despite the Grodna friction typical of Kresowy, between Polish and Jewish communities, Leoś, from a Jewish family, is passionate about Polish history, literature and romantic tradition. In the planned performance of the "Teutonic Knights", which graced the end of the 1938/1939 school year, he competes with a friend for the role of Zbyszek from Bogdaniec. The purpose of the competition is also the considerations of a classmate, Ewelina (Almira Nawrot), daughter of an officer of the Polish Army (Antoni Pawlicki).
Leoś dreams of going with a scout team to a summer camp, but he is in the way of accepting him to ZHP arrest for the communist activity of his older brother Leosia - Jakub (Filip Gurłacz).
Holidays 1939 Leoś spends in Grodno, training medium -distance running. He intends to follow in the footsteps of Janusz Kusociński and dreams of winning a medal for Poland at the Olympics in 1944.
On September 1, 1939, the school was bombed by German aircraft. For Leosia, his friends from school and thousands of Polish children, the beginning war will become a school of accelerated puberty, a confrontation with a dramatic story written by adults.
On September 17, 1939, the Soviets enter Poland. Grodno is defending. Few military branches are assisted by civilians and, above all, schoolchildren.
After the attack of the Soviet tanks, Leoś participates in the dramatic defense of Polish barricades, the last scrap of Poland in Kresy. Unexpectedly, it turns out that Leosia Jakub's brother is at the head of a subversive group supporting the assault of the Soviet troops on Grodno.
