Death of a President (1977 film)

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Death of a President (Polish: Śmierć prezydenta) is a 1977 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.^[1] The film was also selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2]

The film depicts the 1922 assassination of the first President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz by artist and Endecja sympathizer Eligiusz Niewiadomski.

• Zdzisław Mrożewski as president Gabriel Narutowicz
• Marek Walczewski as painter Eligiusz Niewiadomski
• Henryk Bista as priest Marceli Nowakowski
• Czesław Byszewski as Prime Minister Julian Nowak
• Jerzy Duszyński as marshall Józef Piłsudski
• Edmund Fetting as general Józef Haller
• Kazimierz Iwor as Herman Lieberman
• Julian Jabczyński as count Stefan Przezdziecki
• Zbigniew Kryński as Stanisław Thugutt
• Leszek Kubanek as Norbert Barlicki
• Włodzimierz Saar as Stanisław Stroński
• Jerzy Sagan as Wincenty Witos
• Janusz Sykutera as Stanisław Car
• Tomasz Zaliwski as Maciej Rataj
• Teodor Gendera as Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski

• List of submissions to the 51st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Death of a President at IMDb