Zamach
Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
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"At the 1959 Mar del Plata Festival¨The Attempt,¨ (or ¨The Assault¨) won as Best Film and its scriptwriter Jerzy Stefan Stawinski won the Best Screenplay award. It wasn't a bad war movie. Director Passendorfer was both a Member of the Polish Parliament and a filmmaker specialized in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Passendorfer had graduated from the Film School of Prague in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s...."
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The writer won a joint award at the March 1959 Mar del Plata film festival in Argentina for his screenplay on this film and for that of Eroica (Munk).
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Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.