Warsaw '44
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Warsaw '44 |
| Original title | Miasto 44 |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Komasa |
| script | Jan Komasa |
| production | Michał Kwieciński |
| music | Antoni Łazarkiewicz |
| camera | Marian Prokop |
| cut | Michał Czarnecki |
| occupation | |
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Warsaw '44 is a 2014 Polish feature film . The war film deals with the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 during the German occupation of Poland .
The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, lasted 63 days and claimed 200,000 victims among the 900,000 inhabitants of Warsaw . Of the 700,000 surviving people, only 1,000 remained in the destroyed city . Today Warsaw has over two million people.
action
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army advanced from the east towards Warsaw . The Polish underground army takes this as an opportunity to revolt against the German occupiers. The underground fighter Stefan joins the armed uprising. He loves the nurse Ala, but is also drawn to the underground fighter Kama. When the uprising is bloodily suppressed and the city is completely destroyed, both women are killed. Stefan can save himself on a river island in the Vistula , where he once taught Ala to swim. On this he apparently also sees Ala, but in the last shot of the film he is sitting alone on the island.
background
The film was made under the patronage of Bronisław Komorowski , President of the Republic of Poland.
The financing of the film was u. a. Funded by public funds, including by the City of Warsaw, the Polish Film Institute, the Polish television station TVP , license fees from Orange, the national cultural center, the MFF Mazovian Film Fund, the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the City of Łódź .
The film was released in Polish cinemas on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. He has received several Polish film awards.
When it was first broadcast on German television, the film reached 1.06 million viewers.
reception
TV feature film saw a "war trauma in high-gloss optics". Director Komasa delivers "no political analysis, no strong dialogues, just explosions and emotions" and "shocking images - sometimes in slow motion and from a first-person shooter perspective".
Reviews
- Ursula Scheer: They went to ruin for freedom , in: FAZ , August 1, 2015, p. 14 ( online version )
Web links
- Warsaw '44 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ZDF press portal
- Florian Peters: The Warsaw Uprising in Video Clip Aesthetics. The Polish blockbuster "Warsaw '44" is running on ZDF - and hardly anyone looks at Zeitgeschichte-online in August 2015.