Paweł Komorowski

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unconventional nun and an intrigued young man – each of them bears secrets and the encounter could incite a flaming romance, though one suffocated by war.Munk set the film in the mountain capital of Zakopane and its vicinity, allowing breathtaking views from a cable car and using his experiences of the Nazi occupation in the area to add gritty reality. The director plays a cameo as a priest with several of his industry friends also making appearances.

The year 1920, Polish lands beyond the Vistula, the Polish-Bolshevik war continues. Felix Dzerzhinsky travels by train with the army. In July, his appeal to the people was published, in which he warned that from now on, the punishment for theft or inciting robbery would be death by shooting. When a group of hungry, destitute boys break into the wagon during a stop, one of them is captured and brought before the revolutionary.