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Second Run presents Andrzej Wajda's renowned 'War Trilogy' - the three films that first brought Wajda international attention and kickstarted the 'Polish Film School' movement.
These works are powerful and often harrowing accounts of the Polish Resistance through World War II and after, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom.
The set includes A Generation (Pokolenie, 1955), KanaÅ‚ (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament, 1958). These celebrated films are presented from stunning new 2K restorations, with A Generation being released for the first time ever on Blu-ray.
A Generation (Pokolenie)
Andrzej Wajda's debut feature chronicles the lives of a group of young friends who, having grown up in German-occupied Poland, find their places within the Resistance army fighting against their Nazi oppressors.
Taking inspiration from the Italian neorealist movement, and brilliantly photographed by Jerzy Lipman, A Generation changed Polish cinema forever - delivering a brutal elegy to the human cost of war.
"Something really new was being born: a generation of young actors whose natural element would be the cinema. [...] I tried my best to show the great issues of those times reflected in the characters... they are real, not drawn on a heroic scale." Andrzej Wajda
"A film of tremendous importance. The whole of Polish cinema began with it." Roman Polański
Kanał
An unforgettable and harrowing depiction of the last days of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the invading German Nazis, Kanał follows a band of surviving Polish Home Army soldiers who take to the sewers to avoid capture.
Wajda's second feature is both a thrilling WWII adventure and a vivid, melancholic testament to lives lost and martyr heroes born. Kanał remains strikingly fresh in conceit and execution, and presents Wajda's most potent mixture of lyricism and horror.
- 1957 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize
"We knew that we were the voice of our dead, that it was our duty to give testimony to those horrible years, horrible destruction, horrible fate that befell the best part of the Polish nation" - Andrzej Wajda.
Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament)
Wajda's most renowned film and landmark of international cinema, Ashes and Diamonds takes place on the final day of WWII, as a young Resistance fighter is assigned to assassinate a Communist official.
Perfectly realised, the film is also renowned for its electrifying, iconic, era-defining performance by Zbigniew Cybulski. This vision of Poland poised between the horrors of the recent past and an uncertain future, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in a time of transition, is arguably Wajda's greatest work.
- 1959 Venice Film Festival / Winner: FIPRESCI Prize
- 100 Best Films of World Cinema - Empire magazine
- 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films - BBC Culture
- 100 Best Films of the 20th Century - Village Voice Critics' Poll
"I love these uncompromising young men and I understand them. I want my modest film to reveal to the cinema audience the complicated and difficult reality of my generation." Andrzej Wajda
"Ashes and Diamonds had the greatest impact on me. It announced the arrival of a master filmmaker... It introduced us to a whole new school of filmmaking [...] And it gave us Zbigniew Cybulski, a great actor and a new generational icon." Martin Scorsese
Product Features
- A Generation (Pokolenie), KanaÅ‚, and Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament) - each film presented from new 2K restorations.
- Archival interviews with Andrzej Wajda.
- Introductions to each film by Polish cinema expert Michał Oleszczyk
- Audio commentaries on all three films by Michael Brooke.
- Andrzej Wajda's early short films The Bad Boy (Zły chłopiec, 1951), Ceramics from Ilza (Ceramika Ilzecka, 1951) and While You're Sleeping (Kiedy ty śpisz, 1953).
- Individual booklets with new writing on each film by authors and Polish cinema specialists Ewa Mazierska, Tony Rayns and Peter Hames.
- New and improved English subtitle translations.
- World and UK premieres on Blu-ray.
- Region-free Blu-rays (A/B/C).
- More TBC
- Second Run
- 288 mins approx
- Andrzej Wajda
- 12
- Tadeusz Lomnicki
- Urszula Modrzynska
- Tadeusz Janczar
- 1.37:1
- 1.33:1
- 1.66:1
English
- Polish
- 3
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- B
- C
- Second Run
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Arrow Video
Second Run presents Andrzej Wajda's renowned 'War Trilogy' - the three films that first brought Wajda international attention and kickstarted the 'Polish Film School' movement.
These works are powerful and often harrowing accounts of the Polish Resistance through World War II and after, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom.
The set includes A Generation (Pokolenie, 1955), KanaÅ‚ (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament, 1958). These celebrated films are presented from stunning new 2K restorations, with A Generation being released for the first time ever on Blu-ray.
A Generation (Pokolenie)
Andrzej Wajda's debut feature chronicles the lives of a group of young friends who, having grown up in German-occupied Poland, find their places within the Resistance army fighting against their Nazi oppressors.
Taking inspiration from the Italian neorealist movement, and brilliantly photographed by Jerzy Lipman, A Generation changed Polish cinema forever - delivering a brutal elegy to the human cost of war.
"Something really new was being born: a generation of young actors whose natural element would be the cinema. [...] I tried my best to show the great issues of those times reflected in the characters... they are real, not drawn on a heroic scale." Andrzej Wajda
"A film of tremendous importance. The whole of Polish cinema began with it." Roman Polański
Kanał
An unforgettable and harrowing depiction of the last days of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the invading German Nazis, Kanał follows a band of surviving Polish Home Army soldiers who take to the sewers to avoid capture.
Wajda's second feature is both a thrilling WWII adventure and a vivid, melancholic testament to lives lost and martyr heroes born. Kanał remains strikingly fresh in conceit and execution, and presents Wajda's most potent mixture of lyricism and horror.
- 1957 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize
"We knew that we were the voice of our dead, that it was our duty to give testimony to those horrible years, horrible destruction, horrible fate that befell the best part of the Polish nation" - Andrzej Wajda.
Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament)
Wajda's most renowned film and landmark of international cinema, Ashes and Diamonds takes place on the final day of WWII, as a young Resistance fighter is assigned to assassinate a Communist official.
Perfectly realised, the film is also renowned for its electrifying, iconic, era-defining performance by Zbigniew Cybulski. This vision of Poland poised between the horrors of the recent past and an uncertain future, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in a time of transition, is arguably Wajda's greatest work.
- 1959 Venice Film Festival / Winner: FIPRESCI Prize
- 100 Best Films of World Cinema - Empire magazine
- 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films - BBC Culture
- 100 Best Films of the 20th Century - Village Voice Critics' Poll
"I love these uncompromising young men and I understand them. I want my modest film to reveal to the cinema audience the complicated and difficult reality of my generation." Andrzej Wajda
"Ashes and Diamonds had the greatest impact on me. It announced the arrival of a master filmmaker... It introduced us to a whole new school of filmmaking [...] And it gave us Zbigniew Cybulski, a great actor and a new generational icon." Martin Scorsese
Product Features
- A Generation (Pokolenie), KanaÅ‚, and Ashes and Diamonds (PopióÅ‚ i Diament) - each film presented from new 2K restorations.
- Archival interviews with Andrzej Wajda.
- Introductions to each film by Polish cinema expert Michał Oleszczyk
- Audio commentaries on all three films by Michael Brooke.
- Andrzej Wajda's early short films The Bad Boy (Zły chłopiec, 1951), Ceramics from Ilza (Ceramika Ilzecka, 1951) and While You're Sleeping (Kiedy ty śpisz, 1953).
- Individual booklets with new writing on each film by authors and Polish cinema specialists Ewa Mazierska, Tony Rayns and Peter Hames.
- New and improved English subtitle translations.
- World and UK premieres on Blu-ray.
- Region-free Blu-rays (A/B/C).
- More TBC
- Second Run
- 288 mins approx
- Andrzej Wajda
- 12
- Tadeusz Lomnicki
- Urszula Modrzynska
- Tadeusz Janczar
- 1.37:1
- 1.33:1
- 1.66:1
English
- Polish
- 3
- A
- B
- C
- Second Run
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