A Generation

1955 War drama

1h 27min

A wayward teen named Stach lives in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, the young working-class man (Tadeusz Lomnicki) joins the underground resistance and falls in love with the beautiful Dorota (Urszula Modrzynska) who leads the group. Through dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity he matures as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives and comes to adulthood through love and adversity.

Directed by	Andrzej Wajda
Written by	Bohdan Czeszko
Company	The Criterion CollectionThe Criterion CollectionThe Criterion Collection
Original title	Pokolenie
Original lang.	Polish, German
Country	Poland

Starring

Tadeusz Lomnicki

Urszula Modrzynska

Roman Polanski

Tadeusz Janczar

Janusz Paluszkiewicz

Ryszard Kotys

Ludwik Benoit

Zofia Czerwinska

Zbigniew Cybulski

Tadeusz Fijewski

Zygmunt Hobot

Cezary Julski

Bronislaw Kassowski

August Kowalczyk

Jerzy Krasowski

Zenon Laurentowski

Stanislaw Milski

Juliusz Roland

Hanna Skarzanka

Janusz Sciwiarski

Kazimierz Wichniarz

Zygmunt Zintel

Ryszard Ber

Bronislaw Dardzinski

Kazimierz Debicki

Julian Dziedzina

Wieslaw Golas

Jerzy Gruza

Monika Gutman

Henryk Kucharski

Stanislaw Stojko

Danuta Wodynska

Zofia Jamry

Bogumil Kobiela

Franciszek Pieczka

Jan Machulski

Mieczyslaw Kalenik

Janusz Strachocki

Kazimierz Stankiewicz

Kazimierz Kutz

Henryk Staszewski

Mieczyslaw Waskowski

Stefan Wroncki