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The Battle Of Warsaw 1920 Dir: Jerzy Hoffman. Poland. 2011. 115mins
Polish director Jerzy Hoffman (born 1932) has only made 14 films in a 45 year career, but half of them have become landmarks of Polish cinema and he is regarded as one of the outstanding Polish film directors, a sort of Polish Cecile B. DeMille in terms of the grandness of his projects.
Whether the 3D is an enhancement of the story or not will be a matter of taste, but it is certainly there in all its gory glory -- and this is, among other things, one of the goriest war films I have ever seen. Intensely Bloody battlefield action takes up much of the second half of the picture with massive cavalry charges that remind one of Kurosawa's epic horse action in "Kagemusha" -- minus the machine guns of 1920 which double the carnage. The story of the decisive defeat of an invading Russian army at the gates of Warsaw in 1920, known in Poland as "The Miracle of the Vistula" is part of every Polish person's 20th century Polish Mystique and a matter of collective national pride, but is little known outside of poland except to academic historians. The short story is this: Following the Bolshevik revolution of 1918 Russia dropped out of WW I and became engaged in a bloody civil war between Reds and Whites and also in a war of attempted secession by the Ukraine. Lenin was now in power and was hoping to export the communist revolution to other countries staring with Poland its immediate neighbor. The first objective of this Bolshevik thrust was Warsaw but the Poles, even though heavily outnumbered, under the astute leadership of Marshal Pilsudski (who later became president of Poland) inflicted a crushing defeat on the invading Russians thus preserving the independence of the newly liberated Polish republic -- until Hitler came along in 1939.
The love interest is deftly played by debuting actress Natasha Urbanski (until now known as a dancer) and popular actor Boris Szyc. Pilsudski is played by aging one-time matinee idol Daniel Olbrychski, now all but unrecognizable except for the distinctive voice, and his assistant, Weniawski, is a another still very recognizable Polish screen idol, Boguslaw Linda, in a rather small supporting role. However, whenever Olbrychski and Linda are on together there is a small shot of their old time flair. While Hoffman's new film is gigantic in terms of mounting, scope, and colorful detail, the complex political interplay and intrigues may be a little hard for outsiders to follow, and in the battle scenes which certainly capture the grisly
Jerzy Hoffman (born March 15, 1932 in Kraków, Poland) Polish film director of large scale epics on set of latest opus. 07.12.2011 | Editor's blog Cat. : 1920 The World's Most Important Battle in 3D actor actress Alex Deleon America Armed Attack Assistant Battle of Warsaw Bitwa Warszawska, 1920 Boris Szyc Candidate Position Cecile B. DeMille dancer Daniel Olbrychski Daniel Olbrychski Director Employment Relation Entertainment Entertainment film director Films Fire and Sword Gunner Hitler Jan Krynicki Jerzy Hoffman John Ford Krakow Lenin Marshal Movie Release Natasha Urbanski Ola Person Career Pilsudski Poland Polish cinema president priest Russian army Stalin Warsaw Weniawski FILM
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