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Kanal
Why this pick
Wajda’s next wartime film retains the raw, youth-centered resistance perspective of A Generation, but turns it into a more claustrophobic, fatalistic ordeal with stark black-and-white imagery.
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MOVIE1955 1h 27m POL
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Its restless young fighter and morally unstable postwar landscape extend A Generation’s sense of political awakening, compromised ideals, and expressionistic Polish visual power.
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Why this pick
A bitterly ironic Polish view of occupation and resistance, balancing danger with disillusionment and probing how ordinary people perform—or evade—heroism.
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Why this pick
For A Generation’s damaged postwar atmosphere, this spare, haunting two-hander offers an even more intimate portrait of people immobilized by the emotional aftermath of war.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''A Generation'' is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the Germany occupation of Poland. The young protagonist, Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki), is living in squalor on the Rural–urban fringes of the city and carrying out wayward acts of theft and rebellion. After a friend is killed attempting to heist coal from a German supply train, he finds work as an apprentice at a furniture workshop, where he becomes involved in an underground communist resistance cell guided first by a friendly journeyman there who in turn introduces Stach to the beautiful Dorota (Urszula Modrzyńska). An outsider, Jasio Krone (Tadeusz Janczar), the temperamental son of an elderly veteran, is initially reluctant to join the struggle but finally commits himself, running relief operations in the Jewish ghetto during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Urszula Modrzyńska
Dorota
Tadeusz Janczar
Jasio Krone
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Sekuła
Ludwik Benoit
Zofia Czerwińska
Lola
Roman Polanski
Mundek
