Lotna

Lotna is a Polish war film released in 1959 and directed by Andrzej Wajda.

The horse Lotna represents the entire Romantic tradition in culture, a tradition that had a huge influence in the course of Polish history and the formation of Polish literature. Lotna is Wajdas meditation on the historical breaking point that was 1939, as well as a reflection on the ending of an entire era for literature and culture in Poland and in Europe as a whole. Writing of the film, Wajda states that it held great hopes for him, perhaps more than any other. Sadly, Wajda came to think of Lotna a failure as a film.The film remains highly controversial, as Wajda includes a mythical scene in which Polish horsemen suicidally charge a unit of German tanks, an event that never actually happened. ........

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