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A GENERATION

Dir: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzyńska, Tadeusz Janczar
02 Apr, 15:45
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Year of Production: 1955
Country: Poland, 83 min

Wajda’s first full length film is a heartfelt look at the effect of war on the adolescents who are moulded in it and how it sets their entire lives on a needless path of suffering. Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki) is a young man working as an apprentice on the outskirts of Warsaw when a Communist leader in hiding recruits him to fight for the cause. The story follows as he gets more and more involved, kills a Nazi, falls in love, and watches helplessly as his love gets taken away from him.

Barbican

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