DVD
A generation = Pokolenie
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Soundtrack in Polish; subtitles in English.
Performers
Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski.
Publication Information
[New York] : Criterion Collection, 2005, c1954.
Physical Description
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
The story of a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls for a pretty resistance leader. As he and his friends help escapees during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the innocence of a generation is lost under the grueling conditions of war.
Notes
Based on the novel by Bohdan Czeszko.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.
Special features: Andrzej Wajda interview On becoming a filmmaker; short film Ceramics from Ilza; production photos; publicity stills; original artwork by the director; essay by film scholar Ewa Mazierska.