Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Direction
Wajda's final pre-WWII lament, suffocating with foreknowledge.
Cinematography
Golden Polish summer that feels like a funeral.
Writing
Konwicki's novel adapted with bitter nostalgia.
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wajda's 'Polish Trilogy' of doomed generations: this completes his meditation on youth destroyed by history, alongside 'A Generation' and 'Kanał'.
Tadeusz Konwicki, who wrote the source novel and plays the Stranger, literally interrupts his own adaptation to judge his characters. Petty king behavior.
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