Landscape After the Battle (1970)

Original title

Krajobraz po bitwie

Directed by

Andrzej Wajda

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp struggles to adjust to life in a displaced persons camp after liberation. The story follows his interactions with other survivors and a German woman as they try to rebuild some semblance of normalcy. The film captures the disorientation and moral questions of the immediate postwar period.

somberintrospectivebleakcontemplativeslow-burnclaustrophobicpoignantrestrained

What happens

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. In most part, the plot revolves around the events depicted in Borowski's short story called "Bitwa pod Grunwaldem" ("The Battle of Grunwald") from his collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. The film was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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