A Generation
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A Generation is a 1955 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda that portrays young resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and is considered a landmark of postwar Polish cinema.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish drama film
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film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Pokolenie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel by Bohdan Czeszko ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jerzy Lipman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Poland ⓘ |
| depicts |
Nazi occupation of Poland
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Polish resistance ⓘ |
| director | Andrzej Wajda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Film Polski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Czesław Raniszewski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDebutOf | Roman Polański NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Ashes and Diamonds
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Kanal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | young resistance fighters ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| hasDirector | Andrzej Wajda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Nazi-occupied Warsaw ⓘ |
| movement | social realism ⓘ |
| musicBy | Andrzej Markowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Polish underground resistance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | landmark of postwar Polish cinema ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Pokolenie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Andrzej Wajda war trilogy
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Polish Film School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | working-class youth in Warsaw ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Kadr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bohdan Czeszko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| significance | early major work of Andrzej Wajda ⓘ |
| starred |
Roman Polański
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Tadeusz Janczar NERFINISHED ⓘ Tadeusz Łomnicki NERFINISHED ⓘ Urszula Modrzyńska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
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moral choices in wartime ⓘ occupation ⓘ resistance ⓘ |
| timeInSetting | early 1940s ⓘ |
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