Based on the novel by Bohdan Czeszko. Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski.
Summary:
Wajda, who fought for the Resistance during World War II, offers an unsentimental appraisal of heroism in the tale of a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls for a pretty Resistance leader. Barely out of their teens, he and his friends approach their first mission - like a game of cops and robbers.
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