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In Reply to: How did you see this one? posted by Ruben on February 12, 2002 at 08:39:10:
I found it at my rental store among the recent arrivals, they have a WONDERFUL selection. However the two of his films I would *really* want to see again: Kanal and Ashes, I still can't find.Yes, I have seen the Duelists, we talked about it here recently. Good film and Harvey is great there - he is one of my favorite artists, very talented and with little of that nasty Hollywood stench.
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here's a link to video of Ashes for sale...I did not check to see if working, etc. good luck!
I remember seeing it in the early seventies and the strong impression of doom that it left...So when your link is up I will check.
The "Kanal" is available from Amazon, but for $25... need to search a bit more, I guess.
http://www.1worldfilms.com/
Prices are highish, but if you have to have that special film, that's a good place. Wajda's War Trilogy looks very good, but hefty at $75... Think, think...Added the site to my list.
Ashes & Diamonds - one of the greats!
Ashes and Diamonds is another great Wajda's film with a quintessential Zbigniew Cybulski.I think if one had to see just one Wajda film, then this would be it.
Sometimes understandably confused with "Ashes" - a saga about the Polish troops taking part in the Napoleon's wars.
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There are very few war films that are any good, and these are amongst the very best. I was so moved by "Kanal" and "Ashes" I visited Poland in 2000 and was able to recognise street scenes and places in the Wajda films. I visited the memorial in Gdansk at the site of the Post Office where the Postal workers fought off the German Army for days; and the site of the uprising at the end of WW-2 where the Polish resistance was "sold-out" by the Red army failing to advance until they'd all been wiped out. Stories of unbelievable courage by ordinary people; thank God Wajda captured the essence of some of this bravery with such conviction. There were the "Solidarnosc" Gates at the shipyard entrance, and, of course, Auschwitz just outside of Krakow. With such a wealth of dramatic history there are more than enough themes for a filmmaker to draw on here.
Films in the same rarified genre; "Talvisota", "The Winter War", a Finnish film directed by Pekka Parikka (awesome), Das Boot, the BBC series, and if you can't get that, The Directors cut. Compare this to the 2-dimensional "U-571" Hollywood makeover and see how greatly they miss the target.
Eric
Tokyo*
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