DVD
Kanał
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
In Polish with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Teresa Iżewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczysław Gliński, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Władysław Sheybal, Teresa Berezowska.
Publication Information
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([13] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Begins on the 56th day of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis during World War II. A ragtag group of trained and untrained Resistance fighters hold on to the front line. They try to live a relatively normal life, and even find time to play the piano. They achieve small victories, but must retreat into the sewers in order to survive.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Booklet with chapter list, film and DVD credits and an essay by John Simon inserted in container.
Special features: video interview with the director, assistant director, and film critic Jerzy Plazewski