A Generation

Why does a drifting teenager on the edge of Nazi-occupied Warsaw start taking orders from a Communist organizer? Stach, who goes by Bartek (Tadeusz Łomnicki), lives in squalor, and the underground finds him there. Andrzej Wajda, in his first feature, follows him into dangerous resistance work and the pull of Dorota (Urszula Modrzyńska), the young woman who first draws him in.