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26/01/1955 War, Drama 1h 27m
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Overview

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.

  1. Andrzej Wajda

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tadeusz Łomnicki

    Stanisław 'Bartek' Mazur

  2. Urszula Modrzyńska

    Ewa 'Dorota'

  3. Tadeusz Janczar

    Jasio Krone

  4. Janusz Paluszkiewicz

    Sekuła

  5. Ryszard Kotys

    Jacek

  6. Roman Polanski

    Mundek

  7. Ludwik Benoit

    Grzesio

  8. Zofia Czerwińska

    Barkeeper Lola

  9. Zbigniew Cybulski

    Kostek

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-09-01
At the height of the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1942, this tells us a story of war with a slightly different slant. It takes up the cudgels of the youth whose innocence was well and truly stripped away by their oppressors and illustrates just how tough it was to grow up in any sort of a natural fashion when guns were everywhere and freedom-fighting the order of the day. That is exemplified here by "Stach" (Tadeusz Lomnicki). He grew up in the Warsaw equivalent of a shanty town, with his mother, and learned to live on a combination of wits and strength. He falls in with some communist resista...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Polish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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