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Direction
Wajda shoots Gdańsk shipyard like a cathedral of rust and resistance.
Acting
Radziwiłowicz plays father AND son — ghost and flesh haunting each other.
Writing
Winkel's transformation from pawn to person is devastatingly earned.

Director
Andrzej Wajda
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