---
title: 'Tonight a City Will Die (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jan Rybkowski'
released: '1961-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 84
genres:
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Poland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tonight-a-city-will-die-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054835/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tonight a City Will Die (1961)

1961 · 84 min · War · Poland

Original title: Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

## Synopsis

Tonight a City Will Die is a 1961 Polish drama film directed by Jan Rybkowski which presents the tragedy of Dresden during bombings between 13 and 14 February 1945, as seen through the eyes of Polish forced laborers. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where Boguslaw Lambach won the Silver Prize for Director of Photography.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jan Rybkowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-rybkowski)
- **Screenplay:** [Jan Rybkowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-rybkowski), [Leon Kruczkowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-kruczkowski)
- **Director of Photography:** [Bogusław Lambach](https://cinepixo.com/people/bogus-aw-lambach)

## Cast

- [Zygmunt Hobot](https://cinepixo.com/people/zygmunt-hobot)
- [Jadwiga Kuryluk](https://cinepixo.com/people/jadwiga-kuryluk)
- [Barbara Krafftówna](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-krafftowna)
- [Kalina Jędrusik](https://cinepixo.com/people/kalina-jedrusik)
- [Stanisław Łapiński](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanis-aw-apinski)
- [Bogdan Baer](https://cinepixo.com/people/bogdan-baer)
- [Jan Machulski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-machulski)
- [Wanda Łuczycka](https://cinepixo.com/people/wanda-uczycka)
- [Emil Karewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-karewicz)
- [Barbara Horawianka](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-horawianka)
- [Roman Wilhelmi](https://cinepixo.com/people/roman-wilhelmi)
- [Jadwiga Chojnacka](https://cinepixo.com/people/jadwiga-chojnacka)
- [Zbigniew Józefowicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/zbigniew-jozefowicz)
- [Andrzej Łapicki](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrzej-apicki)
- [Stanisław Milski](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanis-aw-milski)

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