The Birthday

The Birthday

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 23, 1980

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

70%

Original Title

Urodziny młodego warszawiaka

Production Companies

Zespół Filmowy "Iluzjon", Filmové studio Barrandov

Director

Ewa Petelska

Description

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.