The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of
Friedrich Paulus's
Sixth Army as a result of the failed
assault on Stalingrad during
Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in
Slovakia; negotiations of the
Polish communists with
Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against
fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in
Bulgaria and preparation by underground workers-communists for armed revolt; expansion of the
guerrilla (partisan) movement; the failure of a
German attempt to destroy People's Liberation Army of
Josip Broz Tito; one of the largest
military operations,
Bagration; the beginning of the liberation of
Poland; creation of the Polish National Government in
Lublin; the
Warsaw Uprising; the capitulation of
Bór-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of
Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw. ==Cast==