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Actors: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Vladek Sheybal
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kanal |
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KANAL, the second film of Polish director Andrzej Wajda was shot in 1956. It won the Special Prize of the Jury of the 1957 Cannes Film festival.
The setting is Warsaw, Poland in september 1944. The Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, that caused the death of 250,000 people, mostly civilians, nears its end. Lt. 'Zadra', a civilian in charge of a dozen soldiers of the "Home Army" which was one of the components of the Polish resistance, is asked by his hierarchy to withdraw back to the center of Warsaw by using the sewers, the canal system of the city. Soon, the members of the small platoon split in several groups. Some will die because they can't bear anymore the darkness and the stench of the canals and get out of it in the middle of the German troops, some will become mad and others will roamed for days under Warsaw, looking for an exit.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kanal |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 70%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Civilian Resistance
Specific to
- WW II
War story:
- escaping behind enemy lines
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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