1924 · Released
The film consists of eight parts: 1) Polonia, 2) The Partition of Poland, 3) To the Katorga, 4) The Galician Slaughter, 5) The Treaty of Versailles, 6) Drzymała's Carriage, 7) The Greater Poland Uprising, 8) The Wrzesińska Case. The staged passages were supplemented with documentary photos of famous localities, monuments, important events, life and achievements of the inhabitants of Poznan and Greater Poland.
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Movie6.7City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
Movie6.2Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London. He must return quickly to Warsaw to transmit orders from the Polish PM to the Home Army's commander-in-chief before the start of the Warsaw uprising.
Movie8.4The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Movie6.5In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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