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- From 6:45 PM
Kanal at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre: Wajda’s Warsaw Uprising film
The most consequential geography in Kanal is below ground: Andrzej Wajda follows Warsaw resistance fighters as the 1944 uprising sends them into the sewer system, described as their only place to survive.
A film that introduced Wajda to U.S. audiences
The event listing identifies Kanal as the first Polish film to depict the Warsaw Uprising and a central work in Wajda’s War Trilogy. It also notes the film’s Special Jury Prize at Cannes, mentioning it alongside Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Kanal reached U.S. theaters in 1961, opening at Dan Talbot’s New Yorker Theater. That release made it the first of Wajda’s films to open in the country.
Further reading: Kanal in Chicago at Music Box Theatre ↗
Wajda directs a story by Stawinski
Andrzej Wajda directed Kanal from a script by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski. The listed cast includes Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar and Wienczyslaw Glinski.
Further reading: Kanal in Chicago at Music Box Theatre ↗
One screening
The listing gives one film screening and does not name a separate accompanying event.
2026-11-18 · Music Box Theatre
- Kanal screening