I'm not Polish but my grandfather was a b-17 co-pilot and part of "Operation Frantic" (look it up on Wikipedia) so I have been interested in the Warsaw uprising and in particular the Soviet abetting of the Nazis by intentionally halting to let let the Warsaw resistors be slaughtered, blocking US attempts to aid them, and blocking other Polish resistance from helping as well.
Really the way WWII is taught in the US, the absolute continual duplicity of the Soviet Union is utterly ignored, as is the fact that the Soviets were allied with the Nazis at the start of the war, enabling the war to start, for the very purpose of dismembering Poland completely, with Katyn Forest being just one example. And then at the end of the war, as Soviet troops advanced in Eastern Europe they made certain o do everything they could to insure as many Polish anti-Nazi fighters that might not be soviet controlled were killed.
On the film itself, Warsaw '44 is highly immersive and well done from a technical point of view showing the kinetic and hyperviolent nature of 20th century urban warfare. As far as the human interest aspect, yes it is a bit overly melodramatic but not overwhelmingly so.
Lastly the top review at the moment says this is an anti-war film. It thankfully is not. Yes a lot of warfare is oppressive, but a lot is a bout liberation. Without the US civil war we would have had slavery a lot longer. Without the US joining WWII to help liberate Europe, the the choices would have been the twin evils of Nazism and communism. Without the US going to war against Japan, both Korea and China, would have been slave states of the Japanese empire. Without the Korean war, S. Korea would have looked like N. Korea the past 65 years. In fact if not for the ancient Greeks going to war against the Persian hordes we have to wonder if a big part of Europe would look like the backward mess that is Iran has been and is.
On the film itself, Warsaw '44 is highly immersive and well done from a technical point of view showing the kinetic and hyperviolent nature of 20th century urban warfare. As far as the human interest aspect, yes it is a bit overly melodramatic but not overwhelmingly so.
Lastly the top review at the moment says this is an anti-war film. It thankfully is not. Yes a lot of warfare is oppressive, but a lot is a bout liberation. Without the US civil war we would have had slavery a lot longer. Without the US joining WWII to help liberate Europe, the the choices would have been the twin evils of Nazism and communism. Without the US going to war against Japan, both Korea and China, would have been slave states of the Japanese empire. Without the Korean war, S. Korea would have looked like N. Korea the past 65 years. In fact if not for the ancient Greeks going to war against the Persian hordes we have to wonder if a big part of Europe would look like the backward mess that is Iran has been and is.