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.
Krystyna Janda
Antonina Dziwisz
Adam Ferency
Lieutenant Morawski
Janusz Gajos
Major Zawada "Kąpielowy"
Agnieszka Holland
Communist Witkowska
Bożena Dykiel
Honorata
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Konstanty Dziwisz
Anna Romantowska
Mira Szajnert
Tomasz Dedek
UB Officer
Jan Jurewicz
Guard
Jarosław Kopaczewski
UB Officer
Zofia Balucka
Cell-mate
Arkadiusz Bazak
Officer at Name-Day Party
Antonina Girycz
Cell Top Dog
O. Jasinska
Tomasz Lengren
Major Olcha
Katarzyna Łaniewska
Orphanage Manageress
Kazimierz Meres
Officer at Name-Day Party
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
Female Prison Officer
Marlena Miarczyńska
Young Mother
Anna Mozolanka
Dziunia
Jerzy Zass
Officer on Duty
Jacek Borkowski
Executioner
Jacek Kałucki
Friend at a Party
Danuta Kowalska
Prison Nurse
Daria Trafankowska
Prison Nurse
Hanna Mikuć
Woman in Hospital (uncredited)
Krzysztof Gosztyła
Alleged Victim
Wojciech Zagórski
Man at the Place of Antonina's Arrest (uncredited)