Kanal (1956)

The 2nd act in Wajda's war trilogy portrays a close and personal account with the WWII events in Warsaw, Poland in 1944. It chronicles the last days of the uprising and of what little fight and numbers the Polish resistance had left against the Germans. 'Kanal' much like…

Robert Beksinski

fatalism and filth.

Josh Lewis

An exceptional film. We are taken from the violent and harsh times that the Warsaw uprising saw with its own eyes to an aimlessly and ultimately destructive decision of madness, solitude and claustrophobia. 40 out of 90 minutes of light is all that we get, but this director…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Bleak Polish war films are always a blessing Stokrotka  is great in this too , truly underrated performance

Noah DiVincenzo

As the dust cloud billows its rancid death above this war ravaged land, the resistance to Hitler’s seemingly unstoppable force dig in. Hiding among their heavily shelled civilian positions, the pain keeps coming. Pushing inward. Squeezing the last drops of life away. In…

Graham

40 minutes of a ramshackle group of Polish resistance soldiers' parting declarations of love, telephone calls to Nazi controlled areas, shacking up one last time, and 50 minutes of losing minds in the sewers beneath the Nazis feet trying to escape. It's a last ditch effort.…

Brian Formo

Kanał (1957) 🇵🇱 Ein harter, düsterer Kriegsfilm von Andrzej Wajda, der den letzten Tagen des Warschauer Aufstands folgt. Eine Gruppe polnischer Kämpfer versucht, über das Abwassersystem der Stadt zu entkommen. Es ist dunkel, eng und dreckig; der Weg durch die dunklen,…

themozzfather

Hell above and below. The sun shines upon the cacophonous ruin of war, but in the endless dark beneath Warsaw, that cacophony becomes an echoing dirge amid mad wails and murky toxic despair. I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to Andrzej Wajda than Kanal’s…

More_Badass

Mit „Der Kanal“ ist dem polnischen Regisseur Andrzej Wajda einer sehr beklemmender Kriegsfilm gelungen. Der Zuschauer wird Zeuge eines Klimas der Hoffnungslosigkeit, der Todesgewissheit und des zunehmenden Realitätsverlusts einer Gruppe von Kämpfern, die um den Ausgang des…

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