A Generation

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A Generation is a 1955 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda that portrays young resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and is considered a landmark of postwar Polish cinema.

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A Generation canonical 5

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instanceOf Polish drama film
film
alsoKnownAs Pokolenie
basedOn novel by Bohdan Czeszko
blackAndWhite true
cinematographyBy Jerzy Lipman
countryOfOrigin Poland
depicts Nazi occupation of Poland
Polish resistance
director Andrzej Wajda
distributor Film Polski
editedBy Czesław Raniszewski
filmDebutOf Roman Polański
linked to: Roman Polanski
followedBy Ashes and Diamonds
Kanal
follows young resistance fighters
genre drama film
war film
hasDirector Andrzej Wajda
historicalContext Nazi-occupied Warsaw
movement social realism
musicBy Andrzej Markowski
narrativeFocus Polish underground resistance
notableFor landmark of postwar Polish cinema
originalLanguage Polish
originalTitle Pokolenie
partOf Andrzej Wajda war trilogy
Polish Film School
portrays working-class youth in Warsaw
productionCompany Kadr
releaseDecade 1950s films
releaseYear 1955
runtimeMinutes 87
screenwriter Bohdan Czeszko
setInLocation Warsaw
setInPeriod World War II
significance early major work of Andrzej Wajda
starred Roman Polański
linked to: Roman Polanski

Tadeusz Janczar
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Urszula Modrzyńska
theme coming of age
moral choices in wartime
occupation
resistance
timeInSetting early 1940s

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Andrzej Wajda notableWork A Generation
Polish Film School notableFilm A Generation
Kanal follows A Generation
Ashes and Diamonds follows A Generation
Jerzy Lipman workedOn A Generation