Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of KANAL (Kanał)
Poland, 1957. 91 minutes
Directed by Andrzej Wajda. 35mm print. Print Courtesy of the George Eastman Museum. Janus Films/Polart.
on Saturday, December 9, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
The earliest film made about the Warsaw Uprising, KANAL is doubtless the best-known of the partisan films to be shown during the fall segment of our series. The second film (following A GENERATION (1955) and ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958)) of Wajda’s war trilogy, this stunningly shot work raises still-burning questions about the relationship between private and political life during wartime, and about how the Uprising has been narrated as a historical event. Presented by Krystyna Iłłakowicz, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University