A Generation

About A Generation

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.

A Generation is a 1955 war film directed by Andrzej Wajda. Tadeusz Łomnicki takes the lead as Stanisław 'Bartek' Mazur, Urszula Modrzyńska as Ewa 'Dorota', Tadeusz Janczar as Jasio Krone, and Janusz Paluszkiewicz as Sekuła.

At 87 minutes long, it arrived in January 1955. Written by Bohdan Czeszko. The film began as a novel.

Shelv files it under communism, jewish ghetto, world war ii, and black and white. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 65 TMDB voters.

Oppenheimer, The Great Dictator, and To Be or Not to Be make useful companions to A Generation.