Excellent and highly thought of series about the members of the Polish Underground in WW2. The Polish underground state was one of the largest, best organised and tenacious in its battle with the occupying Germans and later Soviets.
The story follows the lives of a number of Polish soldiers who were known as the "Cicho Ciemni" the "Dark and Silent" soldiers of Poland's irregular army. Trained and supplied by the SOE they were parachuted into Poland by the British to organise resistance, provide intelligence and carry out assasinations and sabotage.
The image of resistance in Europe until recent years has been based mostly on the idea of the French resistance. Unfortunately this image is highly flawed since the French resistance to the Germans for much of the war was half-hearted at best. Also since much of them were communist they backed the German's until operation Barbarossa in June 1941.
There are now slowly becoming more frequent some excellent Polish productions including this one that using a fictional tale portrays some of the reality of the Polish side of the story of life in Nazi occupied Poland.
Look out for the new film "Miasto 44" out in the cinemas in September 2014.
