A Generation

Andrej Wajda's first film about a group of young communist resisting the nazi in Warsaw in 1942, was surprinsingly not too didactic nor full of propaganda, and very much inspired by neo-realism. The cinematography by Jerzy Lipman is very good, and the chase scene ending up with the suicide in the stairs of one of the main protagonist is truly fantastic. Roman Polanski has a small role, his first on screen, and many key crew members were straight out of the famous Lodz Film School.