Miasto nieujarzmione (1950) ***

Originally, it was supposed to be a film about a solitary man hiding from the Nazis in the ruins of Warsaw in the fall of 1944. Inspired by the adventures of Wladyslaw Szpilman (told years later by Roman Polanski in "The Pianist"), it would have been a story of Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw. However, under the pressure from the Communist Party, it became a film about the resistance in Warsaw after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and before the Red Army captured the city in January 1945. A solitary man hiding from the Nazis is still there, but he is a relatively minor character. The film, however, is quite interesting, a superior example of socialist realist cinema, full of Communist propaganda.