Kanal
1957 · Movie · Not Rated · 96 min · ★ 7.7 · 95% critics
In the last days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a small group of resistance fighters takes refuge in the sewers on orders from their leader. When they eventually try to emerge, they face fierce hostility from the Nazis, and the struggle grows steadily more mentally exhausting and hopeless.
Also known as Canal · The Sewer · They Loved Life
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Details
- Original title
- Kanał
- Years
- 1957
- Release date
- 1957-04-20
- Language
- PL
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (159 votes)
About
You’ll likely like Kanal if you want a tense, claustrophobic WWII survival story in the sewers; Not for you if you dislike grim, suffocating war dramas like Ashes and Diamonds or Katyn.
Pros: relentless claustrophobia; grim intensity; human courage | Cons: grim hopelessness; difficult watch
Themes
- nazi
- world war ii
- black and white
- sewer
- ruins
- warsaw uprising
- warsaw, poland
- sewers
Cast & crew
Teresa Iżewska
as "Daisy"
Tadeusz Janczar
as Ensign "Korab"
Wieńczysław Gliński
as Lieutenant "Zadra"
Tadeusz Gwiazdowski
as Sergeant "Kula"
Stanisław Mikulski
as "Smukły"
Emil Karewicz
as Lieutenant "Mądry"
Vladek Sheybal
as Michał
- TB
Teresa Berezowska
as Halinka
Zofia Lindorf
as Woman searching for a Daughter
Janina Jabłonowska
as Woman shouting at Resistance Members
Directed by Andrzej Wajda