Days of Honor

Days of Honour is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 from 7 September 2008 to 23 November 2014, on STV Glasgow from 2 June 2014 and STV Edinburgh from 16 January 2015.

Plot

Set in German-occupied Poland 1939-1944 and in post-war Poland 1945-1946, the series tells a story of Union of Armed Struggle/Armia Krajowa/Armed Forces Delegation for Poland soldiers commonly referred to as cichociemni. The script was inspired by the stories of Polish soldiers who during World War II underwent training in the UK in order to return to German-occupied Poland and partake in the underground struggle for independence. The series also touches upon the challenges faced by the German military intelligence organisation Abwehr, the intelligence agency of the SS Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, the Nazi secret police commonly known as the Gestapo and the infiltration of the Union of Armed Struggle/Armia Krajowa by the Abwehr and the SD. The series also briefly covers the activities of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate and the NKVD.
Until 2013 six series of 13 episodes each were made. Series I, II and III take place in the spring, summer and autumn of 1941. Series IV covers the period from April to June 1944. The action takes place mainly in Warsaw, including the Warsaw Ghetto, however some parts of the series are set in other areas of the General Government, as well as England, Italy and the Third Reich. Series V tells the story of the final period of World War II and shortly after its end, from April to June 1945, and is set in the newly instated People's Republic of Poland, Czechoslovakia and the American zone of the Allied-occupied West Germany. The action of series I to VI unfolds in the chronological order. Series VII, however, takes it back to 1944 and shows the events of the Warsaw Uprising, the 70th anniversary of which were celebrated in 2014.

Cast

as Władek Konarski
as Janek Markiewicz
Maciej Zakościelny as Bronek Wojciechowski
Jakub Wesołowski as Michał Konarski
as Martin Halbe
Piotr Adamczyk as Lars Rainer
as Maria Konarska
Jan Englert as Czesław Konarski
Robert Gonera as Aleksey Dykov
Maja Ostaszewska and Magdalena Różczka as Wanda Ryszkowska
as Lena Sajkowska
as Romek Sajkowski
Krzysztof Globisz as Leon Sajkowski
Anna Romantowska as Sabina Sajkowska
as Helena
Karolina Gorczyca as Wiktoria "Ruda" Rudnicka
Olga Bołądź as Celina Dłużewska
Krzysztof Stelmaszyk as Gerd Keller
Danuta Stenka as Margaret
as Karol Ryszkowski
as Woźniak
as Nina Jacewicz
Magdalena Boczarska as Karolina Osmanska/Lola
as Janusz Baranowski
as scharfuhrer Uwe Rappke
as Mosler
Paweł Małaszyński as hauptmann Johann von Relatzki vel Tadeusz Kruczek
Daniel Olbrychski as "Doktor"
as Krzysztof
as Gestapo officer "Mongol" in the ghetto
as Staszek Markiewicz, Janek's brother
as nun Józefa
Mirosław Baka as Sorokin
Tomasz Dedek as obersturmbannfuhrer Josef Tannenberg
Olgierd Łukaszewicz as Antoni Żelichowski
as Tomasz Krawicz "Krawiec"
as Antek
Karolina Gruszka as Inga Neuman
Weronika Rosati as Rojza
as scharfuhrer Helmut Fuchs
as Stanisław Wojciechowski, Bronek's father
Robert Kozyra as gruppenfuhrer Ludwik Fischer
Hubert Urbański as colonel Mieczysław Skotnicki "Rybak"
Leszek Lichota as Warecki or Wysocki
Bartosz Gelner as Alan Krawczyk
as Otto Kurchner
Magdalena Cielecka as Ada Lewińska
Jan Frycz as Kazimierz Korytowski "Zawisza"
Adam Woronowicz as Leon Wasilewski
as Lebiediew
Sonia Bohosiewicz as Emilia
Piotr Biedroń as Adam Kosowski
as Kamil

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Episodes

Series 1 Episode 1
Spring 1941. A small division of Polish soldiers are completing their training in England and are about to be parachuted back to occupied Poland in order to carry out sabotage actions against the Germans. The members of the division are: Czesław Konarski, major of the Polish Armed Forces; his two sons - Władek, sportsman and lieutenant of the Polish Armed Forces, and Michał, medical student; Jan Markiewicz, an architecture graduate from Praga in Warsaw, and Bronek Woyciechowski - before the war the only heir to the fortune of a Warsaw businessman. In the meantime the Gestapo are setting a trap...

Reception

The series broadcast by Telewizja Polska enjoyed huge popularity in Poland and the licence to screen it has been purchased by broadcasters in Italy, China, Montenegro and Scotland.

Episode	Series I	Episode	Series II	Episode	Series III	Episode	Series IV	Episode	Series V
1	2 374 829	14	1 957 005	27	2 579 780	40	1 792 427	53	2 546 671
2	2 779 612	15	2 723 292	28	2 186 819	41	1 921 136	54
3	2 661 177	16	2 484 669	29	2 400 921	42	2 134 995	55
4	2 636 936	17	2 431 296	30	2 317 347	43	2 097 357	56
5	2 450 266	18	2 548 605	31	2 338 483	44	2 198 896	57
6	2 734 763	19	2 570 359	32	2 541 287	45	1 852 304	58
7	2 924 582	20	2 715 192	33	2 382 953	46	2 316 992	59
8	2 991 339	21	2 302 843	34	2 191 317	47	2 343 521	60
9	3 174 016	22	2 607 353	35	2 430 812	48	2 115 675	61
10	2 985 221	23	2 582 886	36	2 352 544	49	2 218 107	62
11	3 067 624	24	2 577 587	37	2 216 147	50	2 304 271	63
12	3 045 435	25	2 690 971	38	2 844 672	51	2 586 367	64
13	3 433 103	26	3 454 695	39	2 953 950	52	2 412 923	65
Average audience	2 861 265	Average audience	2 595 919	Average audience	2 444 128	Average audience	2 176 058	Average audience	?