Overview
Part 3 of the Mysteries of Warsaw trilogy. This film is based on a true incident involving the W. family and a notorious, treacherous murder that took place at the time in a seedy hotel in the centre of our city. The settings and streets where the action unfolds were carefully matched to the details recorded in the court chronicles. No copies of the film have survived.
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