A GENERATION (1955)

ANDRZEJ WAJDA

Drama War 1940s Classics True Stories Politics Neo-Realism Coming of Age Art House Recommended

Cast

TADEUSZ LOMNICKI URSZULA MODRZYNSKA TADEUSZ JANCZAR JANUSZ PALUSZKIEWICZ ROMAN POLANSKI LUDWIK BENOIT RYSZARD KOTYS BOHDAN CZESZKO BOHDAN CZESZKO ZBIGNIEW CYBULSKI

Plot

Part 1 of Wajda's trilogy of wartime films, the hopeful one, is set in Wola, a working-class area of Warsaw in 1942, and deals with the graduation of a bunch of semi-delinquent street kids, through individual acts of defiance and courage, into a youth resistance group. The heroism is not simple, neither loyalties nor self-sacrifice are assured, but united they will be.