Director: Krzysztof Łukaszewicz
Pilecki's Report is a 2023 Polish biographical war drama directed by Krzysztof Łukaszewicz. Running 118 minutes, it dramatizes episodes from the life of Witold Pilecki, a Second World War resistance figure, and the legal proceedings he faced in the years after the conflict ended.
What is Pilecki's Report about?
The film moves between two timelines. In one, Pilecki operates inside the Polish underground during the German occupation and takes on a mission connected to the Auschwitz camp, gathering information from within. In the other, set after the war, he is detained by the new authorities and questioned over an extended period. The narrative intercuts interrogation-room scenes with recollections of the earlier years, tracing how the written record he had compiled becomes the central material of the postwar case built around him. Structurally, the picture leans on this back-and-forth rather than a single linear account.
Cast & crew
Przemysław Wyszyński plays Witold Pilecki and carries much of the film's dramatic weight across both timelines. The supporting cast includes Paulina Chapko, Mariusz Jakus, Karol Wróblewski, Paweł Paprocki, Jan Aleksandrowicz-Krasko, Dominik Bąk and Piotr Beluch. The ensemble is drawn from Polish film and stage, and the performances are delivered in the Polish language.
Context & significance
Witold Pilecki was a real figure whose wartime reports circulated among his contacts, and the film takes its title from those written accounts. The production is Polish and was released in 2023, part of a broader body of national cinema that returns to mid-twentieth-century history. It is categorized as biography, drama and war. The postwar section reflects the political transition Poland underwent after 1945, presented here as historical setting rather than commentary. On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.9. The events shown are framed as dramatization rather than documentary reconstruction, with the runtime of 118 minutes divided between the two periods.
Where & how to watch
Pilecki's Report streams on K-Time. This page is free to read without an account, while playback requires signing in with a K-Time login. The title carries Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers across the diaspora can follow the dialogue, and the K-Time interface itself is built around a Persian-language experience.