![]() ![]() Dorata (Urszula Modrzynska) the more emotionally stronger and grounded communist believes in “everyday resistance”. Wajda is on record as saying “People are heroic through their modesty.” However its protagonist Stach (played by Tadeusz Lomnicki) lives impetuously in the moment and is very impressionable. Polish romanticism is back-grounded in Wajda’s debut feature A Generation. This gives Wajda’s films a sensual, romantic (even baroque) edge. Steeped in Polish literature, art and history Wajda both critiques and respects heroism and rests it on a artistic mid-point: uneasy about its often tragic link with nationalism but admiring individual bravery. Heroic endeavour is explored in both trilogies: though Wajda makes it a central theme as he navigates away from neo-realism to his own stylised reality and confident auteurship. Only with Ashes and Diamonds (1958) we have more of a clean break from neo-realism. ![]() You can certainly detect Rossellini’s influence on Wajda – especially in the rough-hewn exteriors of the opening of A Generation (1955) and later in the direction of street crowd scenes in Kanal (1956). ![]() ![]() The two most famous war trilogies in cinema are still Roberto Rossellini’s ( Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero) and Andrzej Wajda’s ( A Generation, Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds). The War Trilogy (Three films by Andrzej Wajda) Second Run Blu Ray ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |