Kanal [videorecording] / Janus Films screenplay, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski director, Andrzej Wajda.

[New York] : Criterion Collection, 2005, c1957.
Added to CLICnet on 07/21/2014

DVD player required Dolby digital mono.
Soundtrack in Polish subtitles in English.
Title and credits from container.
Teresa Iżewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczysław Gliński, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Władysław Sheybal, Teresa Berezowska.
Director of photography, Jerzy Lipman editors, Halina Nawrocka, Aurelia Rut music, Jan Krenz.
Based on the short story by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Special features: Andrzeg Wajda interview On Kanal with assistant director, and film critic Jerzy Plazewski Jan Nowak-Jezioranski: Courier from Warson interview with Warsaw uprising insider behind-the-scenes production photos publicity stills essay by film critic John Simon.
Begins on the 56th day of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis during World War II. A ragtag group of trained and untrained Resistance fighters hold on to the front line. They try to live a relatively normal life, and even find time to play the piano. They achieve small victories, but must retreat into the sewers in order to survive.

Subjects:

Requested by Wittenbreer, B.

Lindell Library New Items