A Generation is the first film of Poland's greatest filmmaker, Andrzej Wajda, and the first of a loose trilogy on the cruel ironies of Poland's wartime Resistance and postwar reconstruction which includes Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds. Based on a novel by Bohdan Czeszko, the film tells of a group of young people who seek to define their own personalities in the attitudes and events of the years of the Nazi occupation. This generation of Polish youth has not only to earn a living under incredibly difficult circumstances; it must also learn to hate and kill. During these bitter struggles, one of the young men falls in love with the woman who leads the Resistance group, a love snatched greedily during the pauses in the fight. In supporting roles are Roman Polanski and Zbigniew Cybulski.
Note: Ashes and Diamonds will screen October 1.