Rafał
Investigator
Prison Doctor
Sykstus
Safebreaker
Maria
Sykstus's Lover
Safebreaker's Friend
Prison Warden
Writer
Hunchback
Prison Guard
Man with Tuberculosis
Agent Arresting Rafal
Officer
Austrian Officer (uncredited)
Gypsy (uncredited)
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.