Ashes and Diamonds 1958  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski, Stanislaw Milski, Artur Mlodnicki, Halina Kwiatkoska, Ignacy Machowski, Zbigniew Skowronski, Aleksander Sewruk, Barbara Krafftówna, Wiktor Grotowicz, Zofia Czerwinska
In this final offering of Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy ("Generation" and "Kanal" preceded it), World War II Polish resistance fighter Maciek Chelmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski) is ordered to assassinate a Communist official. After he fails and is sent out to try again, he listens to his conscience and begins to understand that his generation's cause is lost.
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Innocent Sorcerers 1960  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielowna, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Nowakowski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Although he is not interested in them, women are very attracted to Dr. Andrzej Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki), and he is getting tired of all the attention. Then, Pelagia (Krystyna Stypulkowska) appears on the scene, and his life picks up as they begin a battle of wits that finally dissolves Bazyli's indifference–at least for awhile.
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Love at Twenty 1962 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Francois Darbon, Rosy Varte, Nami Tamura, Barbara Lass, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Cristina Gajoni, Geronimo Meynier, Koji Furuhata, Barbara Frey, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Vera Tschechowa, Werner Finck
This episode of the story of Antoine Doinel's (Jean-Pierre Leaud) life, which began with "The 400 Blows" (1959), presents five stories that are told to reflect love among the younger generation. Five directors–Francois Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, and Andrzej Wajda–present the stories, which are each set in a different country (France, Italy, Japan, West Germany, and Poland).
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Pokolenie 1955 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: A Generation
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Tadeusz Fijewski, Ryszard Kotys, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski, Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Zofia Czerwinska, Ludwik Benoit, Zygmunt Hobot, Cezary Julski, Bronislaw Kassowski, Jerzy Krasowski, August Kowalczyk
In this film–the first entry in Andrzej Wajda's World War II trilogy ("Kanal" and "Ashes and Diamonds" followed it)–a generation of Polish youths comes of age under Nazi occupation. The story centers on Stach (Tadeusz Lomnicki) who joins Dorota's (Urzsula Modrzynska) "Fighting Youth" group, falls in love with her, and recruits others to help with the Communist cause and ridding Poland of Nazis.
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| 1. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
2. Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
3. Love at Twenty (1962)
4. Pokolenie (1955)
aka: A Generation
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