1999 · drama · historical · epic
With Fire and Sword
Directed by Jerzy Hoffman2h 55m1999
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Our read: With Fire and Sword (1999) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · historical · epic entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme drama / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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