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Director:
Writers:
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (screenplay)
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (story)
Release Date:
20 April 1957 (Poland) more
Plot:
A symbolic depiction of hell on Earth, set in the last days of the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Lieutenant... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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(2 articles)
War Costs: Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyn”
(From indieWIRE. 18 February 2009, 4:01 AM, PST)
On DVD: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, "Shadow"
(From IFC. 23 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)
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A Great Film more (14 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Teresa Izewska | ... | Stokrotka |
| Tadeusz Janczar | ... | Ens. Jacek 'Korab' |
| Wienczyslaw Glinski | ... | Lt. 'Zadra' |
| Tadeusz Gwiazdowski | ... | Sgt. 'Kula' |
| Stanislaw Mikulski | ... | Smukly |
| Emil Karewicz | ... | Lt. 'Madry' |
| Vladek Sheybal | ... | Michal 'Ogromny', the composer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal) |
| Teresa Berezowska | ... | Halinka |
| Zofia Lindorf | ... | Old woman looking for her daughter |
| Janina Jablonowska | ... | Woman |
| Maria Kretz | ... | Wounded Woman |
| Jan Englert | ... | Zefir |
| Kazimierz Dejunowicz | ... | Capt. 'Zabawa' |
| Zdzislaw Lesniak | ... | Maly |
| Maciej Maciejewski | ... | Lt. 'Gustaw' |
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Also Known As:
Canal (International: English title) (informal literal title)
Kanał (Poland)
Kanal (USA)
They Loved Life
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Director Andrzej Wajda was himself a fighter in the Polish resistance movement against the Nazis in World War II and several scenes in the film were based on his experiences. more
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Narrator: These are the tragic heroes: watch them closely in the remaining hours of their lives. more
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Referenced in Adagio sostenuto (2008) more
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A great film, at first viewing people may not understand some of the cultural references. The tall blonde brave sewer-runner is not a model of Aryan Uber Womanhood but that of a strong polish woman.According to the official line of Nazi Propaganda the metaphor for the Aryan woman was of a breeder , home maker not a woman that would take a pro-active role in dragging aman half way across the canals of Warsaw. I saw the movie as less of a metaphor for hell as that of an actual hell,the hell of siege such as stalingrad. Stalingrad was not a metaphor for hell it was hell on earth. As was Warsaw in the last days of organized rebellion.As much as Das Boot style brought across a sliver of the real life incident , Kanal's style brings across the desperation of the struggle in Warsaw. The optomistic saddness can be written off as slavic melancholy, or better described as the hope and sorrow of a nation that has many times been routed from the map of europe only to resurface strong and proud.Everything was taken from them and hope itself is in question as the final reel fades to black.