The General - Attempt at Gibraltar
2009 · 90 MIN · IMDB 4.3 · 157 VOTES · DIR. Anna Jadowska
Overview
The film presents the last days of Gen. Sikorski, right before the Gibraltar catastrophe. The commander is accompanied by his daughter Zofia and a group of closest collaborators. They are all guests in the palace of the Governor of Gibraltar, Mason Macfarlane, who is supposed to persuade Sikorski to give back documents on the murder of Polish officers in Katyn. When Sikorski refuses, a plan of attempt on his life comes into action. Who stood behind it? Who executed it and how? Was Zofia on board of Liberator too?
Dialogue Timeline — 713 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:10 Polish Film Institute
00:06:43 - Now. - He needs to rest.
00:08:41 - Are you playing or not? - I will.
00:11:53 Good luck.
00:15:23 I'm here, too. You've known...
00:17:18 I still can't believe that Churchill said
00:20:17 You were supposed to keep quiet.
00:23:56 Why?
00:26:45 sorry to bother you
00:29:29 Leave.
00:31:39 Like shopping?
00:33:51 And where is the Polish courier?
00:37:02 - But now you'll rest, promise? - Promise.
00:41:06 Sorry.
00:43:19 They were supposed to come later.
00:47:44 - He shot me! - Is he dead?
00:50:55 - Who was at the general's? - Just his aide.
00:53:37 We need the dead men's clothes.
00:56:38 Nothing. He's dead.
01:01:56 They'll put us onto Sikorski's plane and it'll be over.
01:04:23 - What the fuck? - The Governor made us bring her.
01:07:29 - What? - Don't look back.
01:13:36 What's going on?
01:19:42 but in 6 months' time someone could've tried!
Cast & Characters
Christoph Pieczynski
Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski
Kamilla Baar
Zofia Lesniowska
Jerzy Gralek
Mason Macfarlane
Tomasz Sobczak
Jan Gralewski
Marieta Zukowska
Alicja Iwanska
Tomasz Borkowski
Ludwik Lubienski
Lukasz Simlat
Zygmunt Bialy
Miroslaw Haniszewski
Edward Prchal
Marcin Bosak
Józef Ponikiewski
Pawel Ciolkosz
Adam Kulakowski
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed713
Dialogue density7.9 lines / min
First line00:00:10
Final line01:19:42
Production Record
DirectorAnna Jadowska
LanguagePolish
IMDb votes157