treatments." Bohdan Czeszko’s autobiographical novel Pokolenie, on which the film is based, concerns his activity in the armed resistance associated with the communist Polish Workers' Party (PPR) against Nazi occupation forces during World War II. Wadja, a member of the PPR since 1948, had at the time of his application to the Łódź Film School in 1950 declared: “Beside talent and a sense of reality, a film director must have a Marxist attitude towards life and art.” Historians Dorata Niemitz and Stefan Steinberg write: Biographer Boleslaw Michalek notes that “in one of the tenants” of the late Stalinist era A Generation depicts Polish nationalists “collaborating almost overtly” with the German occupiers. He adds: DVD A box set of the Three War Films was released by The Criterion Collection. A Generation includes an exclusive interview with the director and film critic Jerzy Płażewski, as well as Wajda's 1951 film school short Ceramics from Iłża (Ceramika Iłżecka), production photos, publicity stills, posters, and original artwork by the director and an essay by film scholar Ewa Mazierska. Footnotes Sources Michalek, Boleslaw. 1973. The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda. The Tanvity Press. A. S. Barnes and Company. New York. Niemitz, Dorata and Steinberg, Stefan. 2016. Polish film and theatre director Andrzej Wajda dead at 90. World Socialist Web Site, 14 October, 2016. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/14/wajd-o14.html Retrieved 04 July, 2022. External links A Generation: Wajda on War an essay by Ewa Mazierska at the Criterion Collection 1955 films Films based on Polish novels Polish black-and-white films Films directed by Andrzej Wajda Films set in 1942 Films set in Warsaw Films shot in Warsaw 1950s Polish-language films Polish war drama films 1950s war drama films 1955 directorial debut films 1955 drama films Polish World War II films Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Films about Polish resistance during World War II