303 Squadron (film)

303 Squadron (film)
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. The movie was directed by Denis Delić, and written by Jacek Samojłowicz, Krzysztof Burdza, and Tomasz Kępski, and produced by Samojłowicz. The cinematography was done by Waldemar Szmidt, scenography by Marian Zawaliński, costumes by Małgorzata Skorupa, and editing by Peter Devaney Flanagan and Marcin Bastkowski.
The preparations for production began in February 2016. The filming began on 10 August 2016 and lasted until 17 October 2017. It was produced by Film Media in Poland and United Kingdom, and distributed by Mówi Serwis. The scenes were filmed in Poland, in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Drwalew, Obory, Warsaw (Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Sabat Theatre), and Kraków (Polish Aviation Museum).
For the production were rented Hawker Hurricane Mk.XII, and de Havilland Tiger Moth. Two replicas of Hawker Hurricane planes were also made. After the end of the filming, they were donated to the 303 Squadron Museum in Napoleon, Silesian Voivodeship, and the Arkady Fiedler Museum in Puszczykowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship.
The film was promoted with the single "Tylko Ty" by Edyta Górniak, which was released on 27 August 2018.
303 Squadron premiered on 31 August 2018.
Accolades
See also
Hurricane (2018 film), a movie with a similar premise that also came out in 2018
Notes
References
External links
303 Squadron on IMDb
303 Squadron on filmpolski.pl (in Polish)
303 Squadron on Filmweb (in Polish)
2018 films
British war drama films
British World War II films
British multilingual films
Polish multilingual films
British historical action films
Polish biographical drama films
British biographical drama films
Biographical action films
Battle of Britain films
World War II films based on actual events
2018 war drama films
2018 multilingual films
2018 drama films
Polish war drama films
2010s British films
Polish epic films
British epic films
2010s English-language films
2010s Polish-language films
2010s German-language films
Polish World War II films
Films based on non-fiction books
Films set in England
Films set in Poland
Films set in 1940
Films set in 1939
Films shot in Poland
Films shot in Kraków
Films shot in Warsaw
English-language Polish films