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Kanal
Why this pick
Wajda’s earlier wartime tragedy shares the nocturnal fatalism, morally trapped resistance fighters, and stark black-and-white imagery that make Ashes and Diamonds so charged.
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MOVIE1958 1h 43m POL
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In an unnamed small Polish town on 8 May 1945, the day Germany officially surrendered, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) and Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) are former Armia Krajowa soldiers, now ''cursed soldiers'' who have been assigned to assassinate the communist Commissar Szczuka (Wacław Zastrzeżyński), but fail in their first attempt to ambush him, killing two civilian cement plant workers instead. They are given a second chance in the town's leading hotel and banquet hall, ''Monopol''.
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