May 7 - 7:00pm
Andrzej Wajda (1956) 95 mins

The 2nd of Wajda’s intense War trilogy is a stark & moving depiction of the Dantesque descent of partisans into the claustrophobic sewers of Warsaw to escape the Nazis during the September 1944 uprising. Deftly mixing poetry & realism, & providing an extraordinary portrait of a country scarred by the horrors of war, this is a key film of the New Polish cinema, & winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.
* Followed by Man of Marble at 8.45pm.
* Screens as part of the Andrzej Wajda Season.