FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Andrzej Wajda - Kanal 

Canal is a film that plays underground, in damp dark sewers. The canal symbolizes the Polish resistance against the German occupying forces during the Second World War. A group of 70 - most of them will die. A hopeless undertaking, which we are as aware of as the protagonists. The underground scenery seems like a nightmare. For Wajda, his second feature film was an international breakthrough. The war trilogy stands in stark contrast to the optimistic propaganda films of the Stalin era. In the West, attempts were made to copy Polish pessimism - unsuccessfully. Kanal, a film that gives voice to the dead of war. We see the film and understand it, the bitter feeling of powerlessness.