CANAL KANAŁ ANDRZEJ WAJDA

  • POLAND

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  • POLISH

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  • 1957

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  • 96 mins

  • FILM COURTESY

    Polish Institute, New Delhi

“Watch them closely, for these are the last hours of their lives,” announces a narrator, foretelling the tragedy that unfolds as a war-ravaged company of Home Army resistance fighters tries to escape the Nazis through the sewers of Warsaw.

‘’ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇರಿ, ಇವು ಅವರ ಬದುಕಿನ ಕೊನೆಯ ಕ್ಷಣಗಳು.. ” ಎಂದು ನಿರೂಪಕ ಘೋಷಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಯುದ್ಧದಿಂದ ನಾಶವಾಗಿರುವ ಹೋಮ್ ಆರ್ಮಿ ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರರ ಒಂದು ತಂಡ, ವಾರ್ಸಾದ ಒಳಚರಂಡಿಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ನಾಜಿಗಳಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಯತ್ನಿಸುವಾಗ, ಮುಂದುವರಿಯುವ ದುರಂತವನ್ನು ಅವನು ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಸೂಚಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Screenplay :

Jerzy Stefan Stawinski

Director of Photography :

Jerzy Lipman

Editor :

Halina Nawrocka

Music :

Jan Krenz

Sound :

Jozef Bartczak

Cast :

Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski

Awards - Winner :

Cannes FF, 1957 (Jury Special Prize)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

BAFTA Award, 1959 (Most Promising Newcomer to Film), Cannes FF, 1957 (Palme d'Or)

Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016) was a towering Polish filmmaker and a key figure of the Polish Film School who shaped postwar European cinema. Born in Suwałki, he joined the anti-Nazi resistance as a teenager, experiences that deeply informed his work. He studied painting in Kraków and film directing in Łódź. Wajda gained international recognition with his wartime trilogy A GENERATION (1954), CANAL (1957), and ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1959). His prolific career blended history, political critique, and humanism in films such as THE BIRCH WOOD (1971), THE PROMISED LAND (1975), MAN OF MARBLE (1977), MAN OF IRON (1981), and DANTON (1982).