movie poster for LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE

Flicks ID

8402

Cert

12

Running time

110 mins

Country

Language

Format

VHS

LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE (1970)

ANDRZEJ WAJDA

Plot

Housing former Polish prisoners, the landscape refered to in the title is that of a concentration camp. Following the Second World War, this is a careful and painfully close study of humanity and the emotional impact of the horrors experienced. Wadja avoids creating easy answers for his characters and avoids sentimentality. What you get therefore is a hard-hitting and unrelenting analysis of human deprivation. Powerful stuff.