Andrzej Wajda's film
A Generation, about the resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II is a good film from a first time director. The film has been proclaimed a masterpiece but that might be pressing the point a bit.
Watching
A Generation, the viewer has to sit through a lot of propaganda crap about how wonderful Communism is going to make everyone's lives after the war. This is not a completely unsurprising point of view. Poland was under the thumb of the Soviet Union while the film was being made. I'm sure Wajda did the best that he could under the circumstances. All this feel good commie stuff does get a little tiresome after a while.
Still, Wajda is telling a pretty good story here about a polish youth who joins the resistance and how it forces him to mature and start facing some of the hard decisions he will have to make in his life. The film has a realistic not pessimistic ending and is not afraid to make the case that people will be sacrificed fighting the Germans.
Overall a good film, worth watching maybe not exactly the film classic that everyone proclaims that it is.
83 minutes.
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