“ Channel ” ( Polish. Kanał ) is a feature film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda . Laureate of the special prize of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival . The second film from Wajda’s trilogy about World War II , which also includes the films “ Generation ” and “ Ash and Diamond ”.
| Channel | |
|---|---|
| Kanał | |
 | |
| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Andrzej Wajda |
| Author script | Jerzy Stefan Stavinsky |
| In the main cast | Teresa Izhevskaya Thaddeus Yanchar Venchislav Glinsky |
| Operator | Jerzy Lipman |
| Composer | Jan Krenz |
| Film company | Creative Association "Shot" |
| Duration | 91 minutes |
| A country |  Poland |
| Tongue | Polish |
| Year | 1957 |
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According to testimony of Andrzej Wajda, the film was inspired by the poem of the Polish poet Jozef Shchepansky “ Czerwona zaraza ” (Red infection) [1] .
Content
Story
The film tells about the tragic fate of a group of soldiers of the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 , which is trying to leave the center of Warsaw through sewer channels [2] .
Cast
- Teresa Izhevskaya - connected "Daisy"
- Tadeusz Yančar - Undercity "Barkas"
- Venchislav Glinsky - Lieutenant "Splinter"
- Stanislav Mikulsky - “Slim”
- Emil Karevich - lieutenant "Smart"
- Teresa Berezovska - connected Halinka
- Tadeusz Gvazdovsky - Sergeant "Crutch"
- Vladek Sheybal - Michal
- Jan Englert - Zephyr
- Zdzislaw Lesnyak - “Small”
- Eva Vishnevskaya
- Adam Pavlikovsky
- Ryszard Filipsky - (not indicated in credits), etc.
Notes
- ↑ Kanal
- ↑ Chernenko M.M. Andrzej Wajda // M. , Art , 1965 , LCCN 66049171
Links
- Kanal on the Internet Movie Database
- Andrzej Wajda about the film Kanał (English)