Landscape After the Battle | |
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Directed by | Andrzej Wajda |
Written by | Tadeusz Borowski Andrzej Brzozowski Andrzej Wajda |
Starring | Daniel Olbrychski |
Cinematography | Zygmunt Samosiuk |
Edited by | Halina Prugar-Ketling |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Landscape After the Battle (Polish: Krajobraz po bitwie) is a 1970 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Daniel Olbrychski; telling a story of a Nazi German concentration camp survivor soon after liberation, residing in a DP camp somewhere in Germany. It is based on the writings of Holocaust survivor and Polish author Tadeusz Borowski.[1] In most part, the plot revolves around the events depicted in Borowski's short story called "Bitwa pod Grunwaldem" ("The Battle of Grunwald")[2] from his collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. The film was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.[3]