Description
The film "Five From Barska Street" follows the lives of five teenagers in Poland during WWII who are forced to adapt to a life of crime and violence. After the war ends, they struggle to adjust to normal life and face legal and moral consequences. The film was directed by Aleksander Ford and faced censorship in postwar Poland.
Five adolescents from the same neighborhood come of age in Poland during WWII. They grow accustomed to stealing, smuggling, and the other brutalities of wartime. Never knowing any other life, they cannot adapt to normal conditions after the war is over and find themselves in serious legal and moral trouble. Directed by Aleksander Ford, a major figure in the postwar Polish film industry, FIVE FROM BARSKA STREET barely slipped past the communist censors.