The article is dedicated to the historical feature film „Squadron” directed in the year 1993 by Juliusz Machulski, being a painful clearance of the difficult past of Polish and Russian peoples. The movie represents a short episode from the history of the January Uprising of 1863 and shows extraordinary attitudes, being characteristic to the representatives of the two fighting nations.
The article concerns a specific period in the history of Polish cinematography, called socialist realism (1949–1954). The new style of filmmaking (according to the ideology of the Polish Communist Party), was imposed by the filmmakers, but was not accepted by the cinema audience.
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