Character Relationship Map: Fatalista

Characters

• Lieutenant Wulicz (played by Gustaw Holoubek) — protagonist

  A fatalistic officer who argues that destiny is predestined. He tests fate by firing a misfiring pistol at his own head. Later, he is accidentally shot and killed by the drunken soldier Pantelejew dur...

• Lieutenant Pieczorin (played by Andrzej Hrydzewicz) — supporting

  An officer who debates Wulicz about destiny and senses his friend's impending death. During Pantelejew's shooting spree, he enters the barricaded stable to test his own fate, emerges unharmed, and suc...

• Private Jaszka Pantelejew (played by Ryszard Filipski) — supporting

  A drunken soldier who rebels against perceived tyrants and fires wildly. He accidentally kills Wulicz and several others, then barricades himself in a stable where he is eventually disarmed by Pieczor...

• Officer (played by Andrzej Mrozek) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Lieutenant Pieczorin → Private Jaszka Pantelejew (Professional Interrogator & Mutineer)

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Private Jaszka Pantelejew → Officer (Conflict Rebel & Suppressors)
• Lieutenant Pieczorin → Officer (Social Regiment Comrades)
• Lieutenant Wulicz → Officer (Social Regiment Comrades)
• Lieutenant Wulicz → Private Jaszka Pantelejew (Conflict Unintended Victim)
• Lieutenant Wulicz → Lieutenant Pieczorin (Conflict Philosophical Opponents)

Story Analysis

A philosophical dispute about predetermined fate becomes a violent test of whether destiny can be challenged.

Plot Progression

1. Debating The Shape Of Fate
2. The Failed Shot
3. A Drunken Uprising
4. The Barricaded Stable
5. Destiny Tested In Action