Andrzej Wajda directs Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzyńska and Roman Polanski in this wartime thriller about a young Polish worker who joins the communist youth resistance. 

Often a very simple piece of propaganda that is improved utterly by three things. An unsentimental, nuanced lead. A strong sense of visual poetry… especially in the sweet romance that unfolds. Thumping action sequences full of palpable risk.

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