Product Details

• Actors: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar, Zygmunt Malanowicz
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Polish (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009QG5Z
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,190 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Landscape After Battle" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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With its breathtaking cinematography, this Andrzej Wajda films is a romantic yet fatalistic fable of budding love and the war that would not end. Based on Tadeusz Borowski’s stories of a German stalag curiously unchanged even after its liberation by the American army, the film tells a powerful love story between two Poles at the end of World War II and portrays the destructive effects of war on the human spirit. When Tadeusz, a sensitive Pole who is fascinated with literature, meets Nina, a girl visiting the war camp, he realizes that he will have to begin his life over again.

Product Description

With its breathtaking cinematography, this Andrzej Wajda films is a romantic yet fatalistic fable of budding love and the war that would not end. Based on Tadeusz Borowski’s stories of a German stalag curiously unchanged even after its liberation by the American army, the film tells a powerful love story between two Poles at the end of World War II and portrays the destructive effects of war on the human spirit. When Tadeusz, a sensitive Pole who is fascinated with literature, meets Nina, a girl visiting the war camp, he realizes that he will have to begin his life over again.

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Haunting and Memorable Film That Takes Place After WWII, December 22, 2004

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Richard J. Brzostek (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Landscape After Battle (DVD)

"Landscape After Battle" (1970; Krajobraz Po Bitwie) is a haunting and memorable film directed by Andrzej Wajda that takes place just after World War II. The film is based on several short stories written by Tadeusz Borowski, who survived Auschwitz. The film begins with the Americans entering a concentration camp at the end of the war in 1945, freeing the prisoners. However, they are freed from one camp and placed into another -- this time guarded by the Americans deep inside Germany. Fearing the people held inside the Nazi camps would know no sense of law, the authorities caged them in another prison until they could decide what to do with them.

Tadeusz (played by Daniel Olbrychski) is an intellectual man who sorts through rubbish to find books to read and writes poetry. He befriends a Jewish woman named Nina in the new camp who fled Poland after the war. After talking, they decide to leave the camp to go for a walk in the woods. Once outside the camp, the two share their feelings and becomes physically intimate. Nina tells Tadeusz she would rather be anywhere, except for Poland. Tadeusz, after thinking long, decides Poland is his home and should return there. Both decide that they should reenter the camp for a while, but doing so creates a dramatic turn of events neither expected.

"Landscape After Battle" is a different type of war film, as it really starts with the war just ending. The viewers are exposed to some of the gritty details of the aftermath of war, as the name of the film suggests. The story is partially tragic, as are many Polish films, however, there is a powerful and artistic flair to the film. "Landscape After Battle" is a gem in the crown of achievement of Andrzej Wajda -- one that is sure to have several scenes that will leave you with lasting memories.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 3 of the 4 reviews were identical and written by the same man., March 10, 2010

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TJ-STL "DVD viewer" (St Louis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Landscape After Battle (DVD)

The man the wrote 3 of the reviews and maybe the fourth must have been connected with the film for some reason. His description of the story if quite good and through but all three were biased and word for word identical. The narrative was very good, but the evaluation was obviously very slanted. However, three things need to be added. The film was 90+ in a foreign language with subtitles, it never explained why the Polish and American troop wanted to imprison and even kill the Polish men they liberated from the concentration camps and lastly the "love" story did not seem to develop as one would expect. But the film did flow slowly but maintained my interest and the acting of the two main characters was good. I never did understand the marching and violin playing. I gave it one star because the other review were apparently very biased and rated this movie way to high. SORRY but that's how I see it.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile, but flawed, March 6, 2010

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Henry D. Friedman "Henry" (Syracuse NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Landscape After Battle (DVD)

The dominant theme of this film director is the IIWW, prior, during and after. This film is a further contribution to this theme, but deals with Poland directly after the cessation of hostilities. It shows influences of existing and evolving political powers and ideas on basically more or less broken and scarred survivors.
I do not speak Polish so must relay on subtitles for most of the dialogue.
I find that the film helps me understand this time period in Poland.
I do not know if it is just me, but I have a great deal of difficulty finding the film credible when it portrays starving survivors who hardly look starving.
Wajda is a great director, no doubt.
But today, if a great director wishes to portray a starving survivor he / she will make their actors starve and submit themselves to some of the hardship which the people they portray experienced.
That does not appear to be the case in this film.
Staving survivors looked anything but starving and were generally not credible for me. They appeared to me to be well fed actors doing a days work. This compromised the film for me.
This is my opinion.