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Time Out says

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.
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Release Details

  • Duration:95 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Andrzej Wajda
  • Screenwriter:Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
  • Cast:
    • Wienczyslaw Glinski
    • Tadeusz Janczar
    • Teresa Izewska
    • Emil Karewicz
    • Vladek Sheybal
    • Stanislaw Mikulski
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