Movie
The Birthday
1980 · 96 min
A sombre, episodic coming-of-age chronicle that follows a young man through the escalating dread of occupation and uprising.
- Directed by
- Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Piotr Łysak, Andrzej Łapicki, Jolanta Grusznic
- Overview
- The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- War, coming-of-age, survival, betrayal
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Piotr Łysak, Andrzej Łapicki, Jolanta Grusznic
