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The final days of the Warsaw uprising, 1944. Deep in the sewers below the city streets, a group of Polish soldiers and civilians retreat from the encircling German army. Lost in the labyrinth of tunnels, they search for a safe exit, desperately trying to escape before they succumb to the slow suffocation of the sewers’ methane gas.

The second in director Andrzej Wajda’s thematically-connected War Trilogy, Kanał is one of the masterpieces of mid-century Polish cinema. It is a gripping tale of determination and resistance, with the sumptuous monochrome cinematography immersing the audience in the nightmarish underground odyssey.

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