A Generation

Pokolenie, feature film, 1955

DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Wajda

A Generation

CAST:
Tadeusz Lomnicki (Stach Mazur),
Urszula Modrzynska (Dorota),
Tadeusz Janczar (Jasio Krone),
Janusz Paluszkiewicz (Sekula),
Roman Polanski (Mundek)

SCRIPT:
Bohdan Czeszko (prema vlastitom romanu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jerzy Lipman

Synopsis:
Wajda’s first feature film shows how a generation grew up under the Nazi occupation of Poland. Stach Mazur is a young man who works as an apprentice in a store. His co-worker explains him the basics of Marxism, and when he meets the lovely and determined leader of the youth resistance, Dorota, Stach falls in love and joins the resistance.

35 mm, b/w, 83 min