A very heavy movie, extremely brutal, merciless picture of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Andrzej Wajda pictured war as a tedious, bloody, messy, dirty, dusty, hopeless, heroic and very terrible affair. The last detachments of active resistance try to fight the overwhelming Nazi forces in Warsaw. The very film is not even about the fight but about the heroic efforts simply to live, to survive, to break through and to win. The whole film is so grim, gory and dark that it is way too difficult to watch it all and not to make a pause just to breathe some air. War is Not fun, and it does show in this movie. The excellent casting of good actors do a decent job, but the film tends to drag and become too tedious and too grim. It presses so much and makes it almost unbearable to see to the unhappy end
