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Men of the Blue Cross

Men of the Blue Cross

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 12, 1955

Runtime

0h 55m

Genres

War, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Błękitny krzyż

Production Companies

Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

Director

Andrzej Munk

Description

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.