A Generation
Jan 26 1955
•1h 27m
•War, Drama
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
Cast
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Tadeusz Łomnicki
Stanisław Mazur "Bartek"
Urszula Modrzyńska
Ewa "Dorota"
Tadeusz Janczar
Jasio Krone
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Sekuła
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