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1950s Polish-language films

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Ashes and Diamonds
1958 film by Andrzej Wajda
Canal
Kanał (, Sewer) is a 1957 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was the first film made about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of a company of Home Army resistance fighters escaping the Nazi onslaught through the city's sewers. The film is adapted from the story “They Loved Life” by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski. Kanał is the second film of Wajda's War Trilogy, preceded by A Generation and followed by Ashes and Diamonds.
Night Train
1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
A Generation
1955 film by Andrzej Wajda
Eroica
1958 film by Andrzej Munk
Speed
Lotna is a 1959 Polish war film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Man on the Tracks
1957 film by Andrzej Munk
The Eagle
1959 Polish war film directed by Leonard Buczkowski
Five Boys from Barska Street
1954 film
The Eighth Day of the Week
1958 film by Aleksander Ford
The Real End of the Great War
1957 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
The Last Day of Summer
1958 film by Tadeusz Konwicki
Shadow
1956 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Youth of Chopin
1952 film by Aleksander Ford
Farewells
Farewells (also titled Lydia Ate the Apple and Partings in the United States; original Polish title: Pożegnania) is a Polish film released in 1958 and directed by Wojciech Has. Taking place in Poland during the late 1930s and early 1940s, this melancholy film evokes the insecurity and despair pervading Poland at the time.
Towards the Sun
1955 Short film directed by Andrzej Wajda
A Matter to Settle
1953 Polish film by Jan Rybkowski
Nikodem Dyzma
1956 film by Jan Rybkowski
Noose
1957 film by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Uśmiech zębiczny
1957 film by Roman Polanski
Szkice węglem
1957 film by Antoni Bohdziewicz
Rozbijemy zabawę
1957 film by Roman Polanski
Irena do domu!
1955 film by Jan Fethke
Unvanquished City
1950 film by Jerzy Zarzycki