Jerzy Krasowski

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.