Word: vistula
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...trilogy but for some reason had to pare Eroica down to the less esthetic form of a double episode. The first, or scherzo, movement begins during the disastrous Warsaw uprising of 1944, when Polish patriots attacked their German oppressors, expecting aid from Russian forces that lay watchfully beyond the Vistula until the city was destroyed. In this film, the reluctant Reds are pretty much ignored. Munk's antihero (Edward Dziewonski) is a self-seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with an enemy...
...green plants on the bottom. Today, after an energetic cleanup campaign, the streets are clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great Lakes, Erie is so close to dying that the states along its shore face the prospect of paying a billion dollars apiece for pollution control...
...equilibrium of Europe, the guarantee of peace along the Rhine, the independence of the Vistula, Danube and Balkan states, the creation of some form of association with the peoples all over the world to whom we have opened the doors of Western civilization, an organization of nations which will be some thing more than an arena for disputes between America and Russia-these surely are our great interests in tomorrow's world. (1944) Perhaps it might be possible to renew Franco-Russian solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part...
...fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely: "We're walking in [obscenity]." The lovers' goal is to reach the sewer's outlet in the Vistula; when they do, a grid of iron bars blocks them. Still the hero, who has lost none of his heart-rending hope, can say: "Daisy, the sun is shining...
...have understood, but Sellers goes farther than that. His shop steward is the little man with the big dream, and he sees that if there is humor, there is also "enormous sadness" in the grubby little doctrine monger's vision of a workers' paradise somewhere beyond the Vistula: "All them cornfields and ballet in the evening...