Warsaw 44 (2014) on Netflix
NR20142h 10mDramaHistoryRomance
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944, Stefan, a resistance activist, joins the Home Army uprising. He loves the nurse Ala, but his childhood friend Kama, a dispatch runner, is drawn to him.
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Plot summary
Stefan is a teenage activist in the Polish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, hiding his work from his mother. After he loses his job at Wedel's and narrowly avoids arrest, he goes to the countryside, where he meets Ala, swimming on an island in a lake. They are drawn to each other. With her and his friends he joins the Kedyw, a Home Army force, over his mother's objections. Ala, from a noble family, leaves for Warsaw for Operation Tempest. When the uprising breaks out on 1 August 1944, Stefan fights, taking part in the capture of a military warehouse in Wola and the freeing of Jewish prisoners from a labor camp. Ala serves as a nurse, called Biedronka, while Kama, Stefan's childhood friend and a dispatch runner, is her rival.
Cast
- Michal Meyeras Pajak
- Grzegorz Daukszewiczas Miki
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Warsaw 44 (2014)
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- Production of Warsaw 44 took almost eight years, and its writer-director Jan Komasa said he wanted to show the Warsaw Uprising to the world and to give it its deserved place in world-wide consciousness.
- Because the city of Warsaw was almost destroyed during the uprising, many scenes in Warsaw 44 needed computer-generated imagery to recreate the Warsaw of old.
