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Bookmark this pageKanal (1956)
Director: Andrzej Wajda
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From Time Out Film Guide
The setting for the second film in Wajda's trilogy about WWII (coming between A Generation and Ashes and Diamonds) is the sewers of Warsaw, through which a group of partisans attempt to make their escape from the Nazis during the 1944 Uprising. This was the film that made Wajda's name in the West, and it certainly has a unique intensity and gloom, with most of the characters enduring appalling fates: two lovers reach an exit to find it sealed off with a grill, another man surfaces right into German hands. Nevertheless, scenes such as the musician playing Chopin amid the ruins have a peculiar poetry that speaks of an experience that demands to be reinvented.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Producer: Stanislaw Adler
Cast: Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Janczar, Teresa Izewska, Emil Karewicz, Vladek Sheybal, Stanislaw Mikulski full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 95 mins
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