Hoffman met with great difficulties in making the film including several interrogations and revisions in the director`s flat, blackmailing by the government and incarceration of all extras during the shooting of a main battle scene in order to support the Soviet Army`s Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1966.
Colonel Wolodyjowski became one of the most popular films in Poland and was sold to 28 countries. Full screen letterbox format. Cast/Obsada: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka, Daniel Olbrychski.
Wzruszajaca historia "pierwszej szabli" Rzeczypospolitej, Michala Wolodyjowskiego. Film pieknych scen batalistycznych, bezgranicznego umilowania ojczyzny i przepysznych epizodow z niezrownanym Zagloba. Wersja panoramiczna z czarnymi pasami u dolu i gory ekranu. By Jerzy Hoffman. 1969, color. 147 mins. English Subtitles. Screen selection, biographies.