"The second part of Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy. At least as good as Ashes and Diamonds, maybe even better. A movie about 43 men and women who escape to sewers on the last day Warsaws' uprising against Nazis. Beautifully and roughly made film which fascinates me again and again.
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September, 1944. It's the 56th day of Warsaw's uprising against the Nazis. The third Platoon of the Resistance is down to 43 heroic men and women, and they're penned in. After a last day of fighting, and of good-byes to family, to love making, and to music, a handful of doomed survivors wade into the city's underground sewers in hopes of escape. Their valor is tested a final time."