August 1944 in dem von den Deutschen besetzten Warschau. Die Jugendlichen Kama, Alicja und Stefan schließen sich, wie viele andere jungen Polen, der Polnischen Heimatarmee an. Alle glauben an einen kurzen und erfolgreichen Aufstand - zumal die Alliierten vor Warschau stehen. Doch der Aufstand wird blutig niedergeschlagen, die Alliierten kommen nicht zur Hilfe.
Der Kompanieführer Zadra will seine letzten Überlebenden heil aus dem höllischen Kampf mit den deutschen Besatzern führen, denn nur wenige von ihnen sind richtige Soldaten. Die Situation wird immer aussichtsloser, als die Deutschen erneut angreifen. Zadra erhält den Befehl, sich mit seinen Leuten ins Stadtzentrum zurückzuziehen. Der einzige Weg dorthin führt durch das Warschauer Kanalsystem. So zieht die Gruppe durch die dunklen und unheimlichen Tunnel.
This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
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The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
This film tells the story of lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) - the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young priest Wyszynski, who has recently been appointed chaplain of the branch in the Kampinos Forest. It is also active in the insurgent hospital. Everyone knows him there under the pseudonym "Radwan III". The reality of the war is for Fr. Wyszynski, a forge of character, a fight for hope and love, especially against enemies. How are we to forgive in everyday warfare? The hero asks, turning to the Source of his vocation.
A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.