Actors: Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Pichelski, Jerzy Moes, Bozena Kurowska
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Lotna
LOTNA was directed by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda in 1959.
The setting is Poland during the first days of WWII. Cavalry Captain Chodakiewicz and Lieutenant Wodnicki are ordered to fight the first German foot troops that have just crossed the border. The lord of a manor situated next to the frontier gives a magnificent white horse -Lotna- to Chodakiewicz. But when first Chodakiewiz, then Cadet Grabowski, are killed by the German bombs while they were riding Lotna, some of the lancers start to believe that the horse has brought them bad luck. But what can they do, with only swords and spears, against the German tanks ?
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Analysis of Lotna
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- senior military
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- land battles
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
