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  Kanal (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanal is a Polish film released in 1956, directed by Andrzej Wajda for P.P. Film Polski at its production unit, Zespol Filmowy "Kadr".
Kanal is the second film of Wajda's War trilogy, which includes the earlier A Generation and the later Ashes and Diamonds.
Kanal was the first film made about the uprising, earning Wajda the Special Jury Prize (the second most prestigious after the Palme d'Or) at Cannes in 1957 and solidifying his position as Poland's premier director.
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 History 0200 - Kanal Notes and Discussion Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Kanal is an oppressive depiction of Poland's utter defeat in World War II and particularly of the total destruction of the Polish capital, Warsaw, during the final phase of World War II when the Poles became victims not just of the German Nazis, but also of a diabolical Soviet strategy.
Kanal was based on a longish short story by J. Stawinski, adapted for the screen by the author, another former A.K. [Armja Krajova] member.
Kanal, now seen as a linking film between the more definite achievements of A Generation and Ashes and Diamonds, shows a marked growth in Wajda's command of the medium.
www.ucis.pitt.edu /eehistory/Kanal.html   (1060 words)

  
 Kanal : DVD
Kanal focuses on a small group of Polish resistance fighters during the Warsaw uprising of 1944.
Kanal is a grim, sad and powerful drama of Polish patriots who use the servers of Warsaw in an attempt to escape from the Nazis during the uprising of 1944.
I first saw this movie 30 years ago--and feared looking at the video because I though it might not be as great as I remembered it.
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 Movie Habit: Review of Kanal (2003), ***
In Kanal, the middle chapter in Wajda’s war trilogy book-ended by A Generation and Ashes and Diamonds, the director presents an engaging story of struggle and survival against all odds.
Aside from its romantic flourishes and a certain amount of innocence, Kanal is a straightforward depiction of the hell and havoc wreaked by the invading German forces.
Kanal shuns the patriotic fervor of war epics such as Patton or The Bridge On the River Kwai and instead begins on a somber note and gets gloomier from there.
www.moviehabit.com /reviews/kan_kf03.shtml   (705 words)

  
 Kanal (1957): DVD details by TYS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The second film by renowned Polish director Andrzej Wajda, and middle part of his war trilogy (between “A Generation,” and “Ashes and Diamonds”), “Kanal” is a gritty, gripping tape of resistance fighters evading the Nazis, only to find themselves trapped in the sewers of Warsaw.
Among movie posters, Polish designs are among the most arresting, often using minimalist imagery that’s far more impressionable and indelible than action poses mixed with huge star visages.
The “Kanal” design recalls Saul Bass’ reductive art for “Joan of Arc,” and certainly sets the tone for what’s a superbly crafted drama with uncompromising depictions of wandering souls.
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 Amazon.com: DVD: Andrzej Wajda - Three War Films (A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes & Diamonds) - Criterion Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Kanal can easily be read as saying that the Russian 'liberation' forced Poles 'into the sewers', to live in filth and stench, both literal and metaphorical; Ashes and Diamonds suggests that Polish identity was at best left confused, at worst outrightly betrayed, by the importation of Communism from Russia.
Kanal is the director of Andrzej Wajda's second tale in his war trilogy based on real events that took place starting in August 1944 when the Poles rose up against the Nazis with hope of getting help from the Soviet Red Army.
Altogether, Kanal is a brilliant piece of cinematic history that should not be forgotten, as it retells the horrors of World War II and the perseverance of the Polish people.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: Kanal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Kanal, the middle feature, is perhaps the most famous, if only because it offers one of the more physically harrowing stories from a war packed with them.
Kanal does not depict the death of heroes, only those of men and one woman -- interestingly, she is the strongest character -- who have lost touch with their ideals and have been reduced to basic instincts.
The film "Kanal" begins in late September with the crushing of the remaining remnant of Resistance forces in Warsaw.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CEB4M   (879 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
Kanal stands in stark contrast to contemporary English and American movies that celebrated WW2 as a series of glorious victories.
Kanal skips that part of the story to instead show how horrible defeat can be for fighters who know that surrender means extermination.
Although there's no explanation for it in the movie, Polish audiences in 1955 knew what Daisy was looking at as she stares out over the Vistula in the last few seconds of the film - the Russian troops that could have saved them, biding their time.
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 Kanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Kanal can refer to one of several things:
For the 1956 movie directed by Andrzej Wajda, see Kanal (movie)
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanal   (104 words)

  
 Movie Habit: Review of Ashes and Diamonds (1958), ** 1/2
The movie opens on an assassination on a lonely road by a rural church.
And while that may be the case, as an American, removed from that defining moment by two generations and half a world, that reason alone doesn't seem enough to make me appreciate the film.
While a stereo mix might have helped the movie in 1958, a halfhearted attempt at basic stereo sweetening is misguided.
www.moviehabit.com /reviews/ash_kc03.shtml   (836 words)

  
 Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Kanal"
The decisive factor of Kanal, which proved to be the first and the most important success in my life, was provided by Tadeusz Konwicki.
Today, it is hard to say what would be the fate of Kanal had it not been for the surprising decision by Leonard Borkowicz, then head of cinematography, to show the film at Cannes.
Kanal can be viewed in two ways: either as an artistic, dramatized relation of events, or as an attempt to create a universal human drama.
www.wajda.pl /en/filmy/film02.html   (875 words)

  
 NOW: Coming Tuesday, November 11 A big splash, Nov 6 - 12, 2003
Kanal and Ashes And Diamonds, both honoured at Venice, are two-thirds of Andrzej Wajda's "war trilogy" of films examining Poland from the perspective of late-50s disenchantment with the Communist ideal, though this is nowhere made explicit.
Kanal and Ashes And Diamonds come from a company called Polart, a name that suggests it might have access to whatever's available in the Polish film archives.
The problem is compounded in Kanal, which suffers from bad scratches, dropped frames and a couple of unmistakable instances of dirt on the frame.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-11-06/movie_videodvd.php   (1202 words)

  
 filmcritic.com Movie Review: Kanal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Beloved Polish director Andrzej Wajda was at his career peak right at the beginning of it, in the 1950s, when the scars of WWII were still fresh, particularly in Poland.
Wajda may very well have produced his finest film ever in 1957 with Kanal (literally "Canal"), about the dying days of the two-month long Polish resistance against the Germans in late 1944 (though the setting is real, the story itself appears completely fictional).
Kanal is included on Criterion's new box set of Wajda's war trilogy, including the skippable A Generation and the highly-regarded Ashes and Diamonds.
www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-1062/reviews.php?rid=1379234&cats=1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+7,+8,+29,+12,+13,+14,+16,+17,+18,+19,+20,+21,+22,+24,+23,+26,+27&genreid=&switches=&letter=&sortby=&page=7   (500 words)

  
 GreenCine | product main - Kanal (Criterion Collection) (1957)
The second of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's WWII trilogy, following Pokolenie (A Generation) and preceding Popiol I diament (Ashes and Diamonds), Kanal is the most physically harrowing of the set.
Based on the experiences of Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, a Polish patriot who participated in the battle for Warsaw in 1939 as an 18-year-old and in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the action takes place in the last week of the 63-day Uprising, as the Nazis hunt down what few freedom fighters remain.
Kanal was Wajda's coming-out film; it won two prizes at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and clicked with both European and American audiences, in spite of its grueling story and pessimistic tone.
www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=36342   (312 words)

  
 kanal
This is the haunting second film in Polish director Andrzej Wajda's WWII trilogy, with the first one A Generation and the final one Ashes and Diamonds.
It's set in the kanals or sewer system of Warsaw, as a group of partisans have no time left to wait for Russian help and try to escape from the Nazis during the last week of the 63-day Uprising in 1944.
The danknesss, the fumes, the underground rats and the walk through the waist-deep slime, leaves the freedom fighters fatally trapped, dispirited and dazed in the dark hell of the kanals.
www.sover.net /~ozus/kanal.htm   (301 words)

  
 Endorsements and reviews of "The HAL 9000 computer and the dream of '2001: A Space Odyssey'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
You kept the non-technical people interested by relating to the movie and to popular conceptions of robots and computers, and at the same time mixed in enough technical components to keep the interest of the experts in the field of AI.
If they are like me, the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey' may have had an influence on their choosing a career in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Through an excellent mix of video clips both from the movie and relevant historical work in the field, you provided a unique perspective of how the field has been influenced and evolved these past decades.
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 Kanal
We have a couple of new pics from King Kong, Peter Jackson's remake of the classic 1933 movie of the same name.
It is not safe to go back into the water as Jennifer Connelly's latest movie, Dark Water, shows.
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Kanal to receive a rating.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/kanal   (405 words)

  
 DVD Empire - DVDs, DVD Movies, DVD Videos, Used DVDs
Kanal DVD Video information is listed on this page for the DVD Movie Kanal.; Please view the cover art for Kanal,; read DVD Video reviews for Kanal,; and check the price and availability for Kanal.; Kanal was released on DVD-Video on 11/18/2003 by Facets Video.
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 Kanal movie info - dvds - Andrzej Wajda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Wajda's unrelentingly intense, claustrophobic portrait of courage in adversity offers a harrowing window on war that (along with its hellish, subterranean setting) earned the film favorable comparisons to Dante's INFERNO.
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 Kanal (1957)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
That this movie was made is a near miracle, since it squeaked out barely 3 years after Stalin died; and the Polish film industry could even begin to suggest that Poles could struggle against the Germans without Soviet "fraternal" help.
It is not so far from the spirit of Ernie Pyle, and just think how long it took to make Band of Brothers.
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
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 Irankicks Football Talk - Mahdavikia on sweden kanal 5.
For the guys in sweden they will show hambutg on kanal 5 today.
downloaded a movie and watched a movie from 2 PM in the morning till now which is 5
Man my speling sucks and iam sure my livereport would suck othervice i would be glad doing it he he.
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 Rajini's Corner- Any question about Rajini's movie will be answered.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
But he had told in a press that his movie will be released by this year most probably deepavali.
The last rajini and kamal movie released together was on 1995 Deepavali.
Sometimes the theater owner or the distributor will run the movie for 100 days by one show and this is to show appreciation to the actors or profit is higher than expected.
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 Moviefone: Kanal Movie
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 Gambheeram Tamil Movie Review - cinema preview stills gallery trailer video clips showtimes - IndiaGlitz.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Gambeeram is laced with stunts, revenge and sacrifice, typical of a movie dealing with the life of a policeman.
Thanikala Bharani, a Tollywood villain is introduced in the movie.
Kanal Kannan's stunts, Y N Murali's cinematography and V T Vijayan's editing add strength to the film.
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