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Scores higher than 89% of the 3,226 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Metacritic81/100
286 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrzej WajdaDirector
- Władysław PasikowskiScreenplay
- Przemysław NowakowskiScreenplay
- Andrzej WajdaScreenplay
- Krzysztof PendereckiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Andrzej ChyraJerzy
- Maja OstaszewskaAnna
- Artur ŻmijewskiAndrzej
- Danuta StenkaGeneral's Wife
- Jan EnglertGeneral
- Magdalena CieleckaAgnieszka
- Agnieszka GlińskaSchool Director
- Paweł MałaszyńskiPilot Lieutenant
- Maja KomorowskaProfessor's Wife
- Władysław KowalskiProfessor U. J.
- Antoni PawlickiTadeusz
- Agnieszka KawiorskaEwa
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or bookworld war iikraków, polandbased on true storywar propagandahistorical eventstalinismstate security1940sstate crimessoviet union historypolish history