Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
A symbolic depiction of hell on Earth, set in the last days of the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Lieutenant Zadra is commanding a company of 43 men in a desperate battle amidst the ruins. Facing German off...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Stats: 63 reviews
It is a daring movie about a art of WWII rarely depicted: the uprising of Warsaw in 1944. In spirit it is close from such milestones as "A Man Escaped" and "The Army of Shadows", but it is formally less perfect.
I loved the part in the sewer. The platoon is properly eaten alive b...( read more)
Part 2 of Wajda's War Trilogy. This film has nothing to do with A Generation except it takes place during WWII. It's about the last days in 1944 of the Warsaw uprising. The Nazi's are closing in and the only way out is through the sewers. The first half hour when they are battlin...( read more)
The second film in Andrzej Wajda's War Trilogy and defiantly better than the first. Set in the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising, showing how the Polish resistance fighters carried on till the end.
Kanal is Polish for Sewer, and it is here that most of the film takes place....( read more)
WEB. Una genuina obra maestra. Es asombroso el genio de Wajda para oscilar entre el realismo, la comedia, la pasión y momentos de horror onírico. Todo en esta película es sobresaliente. / A genuine masterpiece. Wajda's genius is amazing in alternating between realism, comedy, pas...( read more)
I had a lot of difficulty watching this film. One reason was the amazing brutality of it all and another was this was a harsh criticism of the man in the sewers as much as it is propaganda. Wajda, through pure ingenuity, has constructed a film where he rips out the evils of the p...( read more)
Supremely focused and unflinching movie dealing with a group of Polish freedom fighters during the siege of Warsaw near the end of WWII. Tightly constructed and well executed, 'Kanal' ('Sewer') is a notable depiction of a relatively little known event.
The performances are all ...( read more)
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