Andrzej Wajda - Kanal (1957)

At the end of the Warsaw uprising, the few remaining groups of Polish resistance are collapsing under the German onslaught. After taking heavy casualties, the 43 men and women fighters of Lt. Zadra (Wienczyslaw Glinski) are ordered back into the center of the city via the only route not completely controlled by the Germans, the sewers...

Wajda's second entry is a harrowing, dark, cutting account of tragedy, based on a short story by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski. The narrator gives us no illusions: these people are about to die. How they go about doing so is the heart of the matter. Wajda employs detailed settings and impressive battle sequences. His camera wanders throughout, utilizing long pans that evoke the scope of the tragedy.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050585/

Polish audio; English, French and Portuguese subtitles

Posted originally at KG by unclemeat, whom we thank

Andrzej Wajda - Kanal (1957)