Where to Watch A Generation (1955) in the US

What it's about

1942 in German occupied Poland. Stach lives with his mother in a shanty town outside Warsaw. When he starts working as an apprentice in a small workshop in the nearby suburb, a middle-aged craftsman approaches him. The man is a secret Communist leader, known as Comrade Sekula. He introduces Stach to Dorota, a young political leader in the Organization of Youth Fighters. She tells Stach to form a small resistance group within the organization, and he involves his friends Jacek and Mundek. Without Stach knowing it, the small workshop is an important hub for another resistance movement, the Polish Underground Army. When Stach finds one of their hidden guns, he steals it. With the gun Jacek kills a German officer. Their group is commissioned to support rebellious Jews in the ghetto. During this mission Jacek is captured by the Germans and kills himself. Stach spends the night making love with Dorota. In the morning he goes out to buy some bread for them. When he returns, he sees Dorota being taken away by German soldiers. Heartbroken by the loss of Dorota and Jacek, he sits alone in a field outside the city when some new recruits of the movement approach him.

Cast and crew

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Writer

Bohdan Czeszko

Starring

Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar

Details

Release date

Jan 26, 1955

Language

Polish, German

Country

Poland

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