Movie tips: “Kamienie Na Szaniec” – Stones For The Rampart

The Łódź Post suggests it’s readers movies either from Poland or movies which are set in Poland. In this week’s edition, we look at “Kamienie Na Szaniec” – Stones for the Rampart, a story about a group of boy scouts which turn underground resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Based on a well-known Polish novel with the same title the movie re-tells a true life story of a group of scouts called ”Szare Szeregi” (Gray Ranks) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and the liberation of one of its members (imprisoned and tortured by the Germans) through a maverick military action in board daylight right under the enemy’s nose known ”Action at the Arsenal” which was the biggest single feat of the sort undertaken by a youth resistance organisation in all of occupied Europe during WWII.