Krzysztof Kieslowski	...	(Director)
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz	...	(Writer)
Miroslaw Baka	...	Jacek Lazar
Krzysztof Globisz	...	adwokat Piotr Balicki
Jan Tesarz	...	taksówkarz Waldemar Rekowski
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz	...	Przewodniczacy Komisji
Barbara Dziekan	...	Bileterka
Aleksander Bednarz	...	Kat
Jerzy Zass	...	Naczelnik
Zdzislaw Tobiasz	...	Sedzia
Artur Barcis	...	Mlody medczyzna
Krystyna Janda	...	Dorota
Olgierd Lukaszewicz	...	Andrzej
Leonard Andrzejewski	...	Kumpel pijanego na postoju taksówek (as L. Andrzejewski)
Wieslaw Bednarz	...	(as W. Bednarz)
Zbigniew Borek	...	(as Z. Borek)
Ryszard W. Borsucki	...	(as R. W. Borsucki)

Summary: The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, calculated, flawlessly performed execution (both killings shown in the most graphic detail imaginable), while the murderer's idealistic young defence lawyer ends up as an unwilling accessory to the judicial murder of his client.