Kanał

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Kanał (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkanaw], The Sewer) is a 1957 Polish war drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was the first film made about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of a group of Polish resistance fighters and civilians trying to escape the Nazi onslaught through the city's sewer system during the fall of the Mokotów district. Adapted by the uprising veteran Jerzy Stefan Stawiński for the film's screenplay from his own short story, Kanał was the second film of Wajda's War Trilogy, preceded by A Generation and followed by Ashes and Diamonds. The film was the winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

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