Overview
303 Squadron is a 2018 biographical war film directed by Denis Delić, written by Jacek Samojłowicz, Krzysztof Burdza, and Tomasz Kępski, and produced by Samojłowicz. It was produced by Film Media in Poland and United Kingdom, and distributed by Mówi Serwis, and features dialogues in English, Polish, German, and French. The film was based on the 1942 book Squadron 303 by Arkady Fiedler. It depicts the history of the members of the No. 303 Squadron, the Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force, which fought in the Battle of Britain, during the Second World War. The film premiered on 31 August 2018.
Plot
In 1940, during the Second World War, following the Invasion of Poland, and the Fall of France, the pilots of the Polish Air Force escape to the United Kingdom, where they join Royal Air Force. They become members of newly formed No. 303 Squadron, the Polish squadron, which participates in the Battle of Britain against the Nazi Germany Luftwaffe. Initially, the British officers are reluctant towards Polish pilots, however, they gradually win them over with their successes in the fight. Among the Polish pilots are the squadron commander Witold Urbanowicz, and pilot Jan Zumbach.
Cast
Piotr Adamczyk as Witold Urbanowicz
Maciej Zakościelny as Jan Zumbach
Cara Theobold as Victoria Brown
Antoni Królikowski as Witold Łokuciewski
Andrew Woodall as Thomas Jones
Anna Prus as Jagoda Kochan
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski as Mirosław Ferić
John Kay Steel as Stanley Vincent
Jan Wieczorkowski as Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz
Marcin Kwaśny as John A. Kent
Steffen Mennekes as Hermann Von Oste
Piotr Witkowski as Rudolf Knage
Kirk Barker as Athol Forbes
Maciej Cymorek as Josef František
Sławomir Mandes as Tadeusz Andruszków
Tomasz Mandes as Leopold Pamuła
Nikodem Rozbicki as Stanisław Karubin
Wacław Warchoł as Zdzisław Henneberg
Aleksander Wróbel as Jan Daszewski
Hubert Miłkowski as Kazimierz Wünsche
Maciej Marczewski as Zdzisław Krasnodębski
Robert Czebotar as engineer Kochan
Jamie Hinde as king George VI
Jacek Samojłowicz as Hermann Göring
Krzysztof Franieczek as Lützow
Wenanty Nosul as Ansell
Krzysztof Rurka as Arkady Fiedler
Production
The film was based on the 1942 book Squadron 303 by Arkady Fiedler. It depicted the history of the members of the No. 303 Squadron, the Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force, which fought in the Battle of Britain, during the Second World War.
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