In this film Andrzej Wajda’s directorial talent was revealed. It is an adaptation of a socialist realist novel by Bohdan Czeszka, but the director clearly goes beyond the current trend. The film tells about the activists of the People’s Guard who organize conspiracy against the Nazis during the World War II. In the picture we have a galaxy of Polish actors – Tadeusz Janczar, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski and the future director Roman Polański. “Pokolenie” is the first part in Wajda’s war trilogy

With this film Andrzej Wajda’s international fame began. This is the second part in the war trilogy, an adaptation of a short story by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. A terrifying study of the agony of the Warsaw Uprising. A unit of Home Army soldiers is trying to cross the sewers to the still defending Śródmieście. Uprising participants have to live among rats and faeces. The film received a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film is an adaptation of a short story by Janusz Głowacki and tells a lot of truth about complicated male-female relations. The main character, Włodek, is a married bookstore employee who one day starts an affair with a young girl. Irena, however, turns out to be more possessive than his wife. Great roles in this film were played by Małgorzata Braunek, Zygmunt Malanowicz and Hanka Skarżanka.