Lotna
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lotna |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| script |
Wojciech Żukrowski Andrzej Wajda |
| production | Film studio Kadr |
| music | Tadeusz Baird |
| camera | Jerzy Lipman |
| cut | Janina Niedźwiecka |
| occupation | |
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Lotna is a Polish feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda in 1959.
action
The film tells the story of the gray mare Lotna, who is handed over to Rittmeister Chodakiewicz by her owner. Chodakiewicz commands a squadron of Uhlans . This cavalry is considered to be the great pride of the Polish army. When the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939 , the Chodakiewicz squadron and Lotna were also deployed. Hopelessly inferior, the Uhlans fight tanks on horseback, similar to the real battle at Krojanty , which was falsified by the propaganda of several countries.
Eventually Chodakiewicz falls; Lotna goes to Ensign Jerzy. His unit manages to escape to the native village of Lotna, where Jerzy marries young Ewa. The unit must go back to the hopeless battle; this develops into an escape in which she is bombed by fighter planes. Eventually Jerzy also falls. Lotna changes hands with each death of one of the heroes and finally experiences the mercy death. At the end of the film, the few survivors of the squadron cut up their troop flags to save them for the reconstruction of the squadron and the fatherland.
Reviews
“Wajda's film does not attempt convincingly to show the senselessness and absurdity of war. Aesthetic camera work, weak character drawing by the actors and a lack of atmospheric density undermine this intention. "
Web links
- LOTNA in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmpolski.pl with photos of the film
- English review
Footnotes
- ↑ Jochen Böhler wrote in 2009 in his book The attack: Germany's war against Poland p. 96. on this: The myth of Polish cavalrymen [...] arose the next day when an Italian war correspondent told Wehrmacht soldiers [...] after the Questioned combat. The Nazi propaganda used the image to impute to the Polish soldiers hubris and fanaticism. ...