| Colonel Kwiatkowski | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Kazimierz Kutz |
| Starring: | Marek Kondrat, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Renata Dancewicz |
| Music: | Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz |
| Cinematography: | Grzegorz Kędzierski |
| Runtime: | 123 minutes |
| Country: | Poland |
| Language: | Polish |
Colonel Kwiatkowski (Polish: Pułkownik Kwiatkowski) is a Polish comedy-drama film directed by Kazimierz Kutz.[1] It was released in 1996.[2] The movie is loosely based on post-WW2 life of, a Polish anti-Soviet resistance member who assumed a false identity of "Wojciech Kossowski" to infiltrate the Polish People's Army.[3]
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.