Tajemnica Westerplatte

This film may be viewed as a remake of 1967's Polish classic, Westerplatte, and in some ways it is a real remake, as many scenes were very precisely reproduced, the scenery is almost identical to old black and white version. And many battle scenes are also very close to that old film. As well as some characters. Yes, full color version seems better, as well as many video FXs and some sound production. Yes, the morbid reality of deaths in action is shown pretty well, too. And then, some weaker moments creep in. The camera work is often repeating the excellent ideas of 1920. Bitwa Warszawska, but this time in a more amateur way. The heavy handed play of almost all main actors makes this already plodding film a real slow snail at a painful pace. Many moments seem very odd and totally unnecessary. What is really bad, the film often badly borders on a sheer amateurism and therefore the tragic feel of loss and failure is lost wholly. Thighs film can be watched once, for the knowledge reasons, and then quite quickly dismissed as a languid attempt at really exciting and very interesting page of History.