Polish director Wajda's 1956 movie shown at Cannes
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
20.05.2019 12:00
A remastered version of Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s 1956 movie "Canal" is due to be shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes on Monday.
Director Andrzej Wajda on the set of the movie The Promised Land in 1974. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
The screening is part of the Cannes Classics series, which showcases digitally remastered masterpieces of world cinema.
Canal (also known as Sewer) is one of the supreme achievements of what is known as the Polish school of filmmaking of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The movie tells the story of Polish Home Army resistance fighters who escape the Nazi onslaught during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising through the city’s sewers.
The film won Wajda, then on the threshold of his career as a director, the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Festival in 1957.
Wajda died in 2016 at the age of 90.
His honours included an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement and four Academy Award nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category: for The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko, Man of Iron, and Katyń.
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