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To Save the City

1976 · 110 min

A sober, slow-building wartime drama about quiet cooperation under pressure, more procedural than action-driven.

Overview
1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • war
    • survival
    • politics
    • loyalty
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action4
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism7
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    war, drama
    Directed by
    Jan Łomnicki
    Written by
    Andrzej Szczypiorski, Jan Łomnicki
    Starring
    Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Jan Krzyżanowski, Jacek Miśkiewicz, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Ни́на Ма́слова, Kirill Arbuzov, Sergey Polezhaev, Oleg Mokshantsev
    Music
    Piotr Hertel
    Cinematography
    Ewa Strzałka, Jerzy Gościk
    Runtime
    110 min
    Country
    Poland, Soviet Union
    Languages
    German, Polish, Russian

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