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Kanal

1957·1h 31m·Not Rated
DramaWar
IMDb Rating
★ 7.9/10
8,852 votes

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Kanal is a 1957 drama war movie directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Teresa Izewska. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.9/10 from 8,852 votes and runs 1h 31m.

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Director
Andrzej Wajda
Stars
Wienczyslaw Glinski
Tadeusz Gwiazdowski
Teresa Izewska
Tadeusz Janczar
Creators
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Details
1957-04-20
91 min
Movie
Not Rated
★ Poland
★ Polish, German
Keywords
1940sruined cityworld war twopolandshootinguprisinglienazi occupied polandshooting oneselfaerial bombingnazi20th centurybullet wounddrunkpianosuicide by shootingkilled by a hand grenadelostbegins with voice over narrationgrenadehopelessnessurban warfaresuffocationsuicidewehrmachtchest wounddowntownresistancepanicresistance fighterretreatplaying a grand pianowarsaw polandcourtyardruinspolish militarysecond in trilogysewer tunnelvoice overdead bodybased on short storytitle same as bookgrenade explosioninspired by a true storypsychological dramacall homeshot in the torsoshot in the chestwarsaw uprisingwoundbooby trapsewercapturedcanalclimbing out of a manholetelephone callescapeair raidpolish resistancesewersyear 1944screenplay adapted by authordante quotesewer systempart of trilogycity in ruinsone word titlewithdrawalcovered in faecesreference to dante alighieriomniscient narratornazi occupationtragedysoldierdead endintoxicatedlong tracking shotcapturedrunkennessvoice over narration