Colonel Kwiatkowski () is a Polish comedy-drama film directed by Kazimierz Kutz.Derek Elley, "Colonel Kwiatkowski". Variety, July 29, 1996. It was released in 1996.Pułkownik Kwiatkowski at the Polish Internet Movie Database The movie is loosely based on post-WW2 life of , a Polish anti-Soviet resistance member who assumed a false identity of "Wojciech Kossowski" to infiltrate the Polish People's Army.
Plot Just after the end of World War II, Kwiatkowski, a military physician, finds himself in a quarrel with a Soviet officer. To avoid escalation, he pretends that he is a high-ranking UB official. After getting away with it, he is asked by a mother of an AK fighter to help her son from becoming a political prisoner. Kwiatkowski frees the young man by pretending to make an inspection of the facility he is jailed in. The fake officer decides to use the post-war confusion and lawlessness to liberate several other political prisoners.
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