Berlin 2008 – Prix Europa -Best Television Fiction Film Moscow InternationaL War Film Festival 2008 – Best Cinematography Award for Piotr Wojtowicz Seoul Drama Festival 2008 - Best Cinematography Award for Piotr Wojtowicz Polish Film Festival Los Angeles 2008 – Hollywood Eagle Award Shanghai Television Festival 2008 - TV Film Golden Magnolia Award Polish Film Festival, Gdynia 2007 – Best Art Director Award for Magdalena Dipont, Best Costume Award for Magdalena Biedrzycka and Andrzej Szenajch, Jury Award for Julia Pietrucha
This film tells the story of three Warsaw secondary school graduates from the class of 1938, full of magnificent plans for the future and hopes and dreams about adult life. The protagonists enter their maturity when Poland faces the invasion of Nazi Germany. Confronting harsh reality becomes a difficult lesson of patriotism.
The protagonists’ forerunners are real people, friends of the film’s screenwriter, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski.