At the 1959 Mar del Plata Festival¨The Attempt,¨ (or ¨The Assault¨) won as Best Film and its scriptwriter Jerzy Stefan Stawinski won the Best Screenplay award. It wasn't a bad war movie. Director Passendorfer was both a Member of the Polish Parliament and a filmmaker specialized in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Passendorfer had graduated from the Film School of Prague in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s.
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searchanddestroy-15 December 2012I am lucky enough to have some pushers who can provide me with rare war films from all over the world. Especially from Eastern Europe countries such as Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and so on. From these countries, many movies were never been released more west. I have seen a little batch, thanks to these guys. This one makes me think of another film from Poland too, telling the story of a group of young underground resistant movement against Nazis. Nothing really new if you compare with the other features, not at the same scale as L'ARMEE DES OMBRES, the best film ever about this kind of topic. But the characterization for this one is rather good, the score and filming too.
Worth seeing. And keep in mind that there are many others like this one which we probably never see.