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Kanał (Polish pronunciation: , The Sewer) is a 1957 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was the first film made about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of a group of Polish resistance fighters and civilians escaping the Nazi onslaught through the city's sewers. Adapted from the story "They Loved Life" by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Kanał was the second film of Wajda's War Trilogy, preceded by A Generation and followed by Ashes and Diamonds. The film was the winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.