Directed by:
Andrzej WajdaScreenplay:
Bohdan CzeszkoCinematography:
Jerzy LipmanComposer:
Andrzej MarkowskiCast:
Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Ryszard Kotys, Roman Polański, Ludwik Benoit, Zofia Czerwińska (more)VOD (1)
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Andrzej Wajda's debut feature chronicles the lives of a group of young friends who, having grown up in German-occupied Poland, find their places within the Resistance army fighting against their Nazi oppressors. Taking inspiration from the Italian neorealist movement, and brilliantly photographed by Jerzy Lipman, A Generation changed Polish cinema forever - delivering a brutal elegy to the human cost of war. (Second Run)
(more)Cast
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Poland
Best movies:
Man of Marble (1977)
Potop (1974)
Blind Chance (1981)
Urszula Modrzynska
Poland
Best movies:
Zdjęcia próbne (1976)
Black Cross (1960)
A Generation (1955)
Tadeusz Janczar
Poland
Best movies:
Canal (1957)
Eroica (1957)
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Birth Certificate (1961)
Man on the Tracks (1956)
Westerplatte Resists (1967)
Ryszard Kotys
Poland
Best movies:
A Lonely Woman (1981)
Wielki bieg (1981) (TV movie)
Czarne stopy (1986)
Roman Polański
France
Ludwik Benoit
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Axiliad (1986)
How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Zofia Czerwińska
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
Con amore (1976)
Eroica (1957)
Zbigniew Cybulski
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Love at Twenty (1962)
Tadeusz Fijewski
Poland
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Border Street (1948)
The Peasants (1973)
Wiesław Gołas
Poland
Best movies:
Potop (1974)
Przeklete oko proroka (1984)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Franciszek Pieczka
Poland
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
Potop (1974)
The Man Who Read Music from Plates (1995)
Kazimierz Kutz
Poland
Best movies:
Canal (1957)
Mister T. (2019)
A Generation (1955)
Ryszard Ber
Poland
Best movies:
A Generation (1955)
Jan Machulski
Poland
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Hit the Bank (1981)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Kazimierz Wichniarz
German Empire
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
Potop (1974)
Forbidden Songs (1946)
Jerzy Gruza
Poland
Best movies:
A Generation (1955)
Zofia Jamry
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Forbidden Songs (1946)
How to Be Loved (1963)
A Generation (1955)
Janusz Strachocki
Poland
Best movies:
Romance for Bugle (1966)
Black Cross (1960)
A Generation (1955)
Hanna Skarzanka
Russian Empire
Best movies:
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Matthew's Days (1967)
The Law and the Fist (1966)