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This film is a sad picture about the 16th December 1981 in the Wujek mine in Katowice. As it is well known, after declarations that the country of Polnad is in a state of war and after the arrest of the leader of "The Solidarity", the miners went on strike in order for the authorities to neglect their previous declarations, free the miners' colleague and make the ruling power accept the documents of the "Porozumienie Jastrzębskie". On the 16th of December after trying to end the strike without the use of force, a tank broke into the mine crashing the compound's wall. The forces of the police and ZOMO broke into the mine's territory. There was a fight and shots were fired. Six miners were killed, while there were three more casualties from the given wounds. In the place those bloody events, the miners put a cross.

The movie about the tragedy in Wujek was directed by Kazimierz Kutz who is a director of "The Salt of the Black Earth" and "The Pearl in the Crown" - other moving stories about earlier problem of the people of Śląsk. A special committee in the mine was created to help to gather the money for the production (But the gathering of the money which was collected all over the country was unsuccessful and didn't get the predicted results).

In 1994 the movie was awarded at the Gdańsk Film Festival. It was given a special Jury Award as well as The Mayor of Gdańsk Award.