Warsaw Uprising

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Warsaw Uprising

2014

1h 27m

Drama

War

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The history of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 told by a U.S. airman, an escapee from a concentration camp, and two young reporters.

Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

03/04/2015

It might perhaps have been better to leave this extraordinary assemblage of real found footage to speak for itself - but that cameraman's commentary on his own acts of image-making and eyewitness also helps viewers relate to [the] material

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

11/06/2014

The flaws don't detract from the film's casual and calamitous sights - from soldiers shaving and hanging out, to a no-man's-land conference with a Nazi, to a sorrowful survivor of bombardment who looks as if he might crumble and blow away.

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Diana Clarke

Village Voice

11/04/2014

Despite its context in a global conflict, Uprising is a strangely intimate film.

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Giuseppe Sedia

Kino Mania

05/27/2024

5/5

Seeing the smiles of the insurgents as they build barricades and weapons and joke around lays bare uncharted emotional paths that could never be explored in a feature film. Polish cinema has finally produced its own Germany, Year Zero.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

11/09/2014

9.85/10

One of the most essential, potent and haunting documentary war films ever made.

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06/09/2019

Cookie cutter bad movie. Actors look like models after 5 years of starving.

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04/10/2016

The viewpoint of the anti-communist forces along with the brothers' narrations brings the haunting details into close, intimate reality for contemporary viewers.

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Synopsis

The history of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 told by a U.S. airman, an escapee from a concentration camp, and two young reporters.

Director: Jan Komasa
Producer: Jan Oldakowski, Piotr C. Sliwowski
Screenwriter: Jan Oldakowski, Władysław Pasikowski, Joanna Pawluskiewicz, Piotr C. Sliwowski
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 27m