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The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy

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(65%)
 
Starring: Wienczyslaw Glinski | Teresa Izewska | Tadeusz Janczar | Roman Polanski | Tadeusz Lomnicki | Urszula Modrzynska | Zbigniew Cybulski | Eva Krzyzewski | Adam Pawlikowski
Director: Andrzrej Wajda
Studio: ARROW FILMS
Run time: 273 mins
Genres: Action/Adventure | Drama | World Cinema
Languages: Polish
Subtitles: English
Released: May 26, 2008
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Features Polish auteur Andrzrej Wajda's war trilogy, containing A GENERATION, CANAL, and ASHES AND DIAMONDS.
In A GENERATION, a cocky Polish youth falls for a pretty Resistance leader. As a result he joins the movement but he and his brash friends treat their first mission as a game. Inevitably, the game turns deadly.
Set in war-torn Warsaw during World War II, KANAL tells of soldiers and patriots attempting to flee the grasp of the Nazis by escaping through the city's maze of sewers.
In ASHES AND DIAMONDS, a young Polish Resistance fighter is ordered on the last day of WWII to assassinate an incoming Russian commissar. However, a mistake leads to him having an encounter with a beautiful barmaid.

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Good film in needs some TLC

sandy666 from , 16th August, 2008

The film follows some young men who join the (communist) Polish resistance and follows their story. As such the story is fairly easy to follow, but there isn't much in the way of explanation about how or why certain events or antagonisms happen. Perhaps they were self-evident to someone watching the film at the time, but not being fully familiar events depicted, the film fails to stand on its own. The print is not perfect with some scenes being very dark and difficult to see. A restored digital print is needed. The extras contains an interview with the director which he is very thoughtful and reflective about the development of Polish cinema and the effects of making films in the soviet era with censorship. Worth a watch.

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Ashes and Diamonds crumbling with age

itstinks from , 7th July, 2008

Not really lasted the test of time, what would have been meaningful and potent at the time now is more a testimony of how it was made at the time. The performances are varied with the actor who plays the assassin who was supposed to be the James Dean of his time now coming across as more Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo. I remember having seen Man of Marble and Man of Iron many years ago and they are far maturer works.

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