Vampires of Warsaw (Polish:Wampiry Warszawy) is a 1925Polishsilentcrime film directed byWiktor Biegański and starringOktawian Kaczanowski,Halina Labedzka andMaria Balcerkiewiczówna. It was Biegański's most popular film, and displayed the influence ofSoviet cinema on his work.^[2] The film is consideredlost, so it is difficult to describe the plot in detail, but from what can be gathered the film appears to have been a murder mystery whodunit featuring a pair of Russian aristocrats who are determined to marry a wealthy father/daughter and murder them for their inheritance. Despite the title the film did not actually feature any vampires of the supernatural variety.^[3]

Vampires of Warsaw
A scene from the film.
Directed by	Wiktor Biegański
Written by	Wiktor Biegański (based on his own stage play)
Starring	Oktawian Kaczanowski Halina Labedzka Maria Balcerkiewiczówna Igo Sym
Cinematography	Ferdynand Vlassak Antoni Wawrzyniak
Production company	Merkurfilm
Release date	28 October 1925 (1925-10-28)
Running time	36 minutes[1]
Country	Poland
Languages	Silent Polishintertitles

Actor Igo Sym, who later shared billing in films with top name stars like Marlene Dietrich, became a Nazi informant in WWII and turned in a number of fellow Polish actors and theater owners who were aligned with the Resistance forces in Poland. In 1941, some Polish freedom fighters assassinated Sym, and the Nazis retaliated by executing 21 hostages and sending dozens of others to Auschwitz.^[4]

• Oktawian Kaczanowski as Pradowski
• Halina Łabędzka as Urszula Pradowska
• Maria Balcerkiewiczówna as Countess Tamarska
• Igo Sym as Tadeusz Wyzewicz, lawyer
• Lech Owron as Baron Kamiłow
• Marian Kiernicki as Antoni, lokaj
• Wiera Pogorzanka as Tonia
• Katarzyna Dworkowska as Przelozona klasztoru
• Piotr Hryniewicz as Prosecutor
• K. Marczewski as Lichwiarz

• Haltof, Marek.Polish National Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2002.

• Vampires of Warsaw atIMDb