graphic: Platige Studio

A trailer of a film showing a birds-eye, 3D view of the destruction of the Polish capital after 1944’s Warsaw Rising has been released ahead of City of Ruin’s August 1 premier.

It is spring 1945 and an allies’B-24 Liberator bomber is flying over the ruins of the capital after the Nazis had crushed the Warsaw resistance of the previous year, trashed the city and retreated.

So begins the City of Ruins (Miasto Ruin), a digitally reconstructed view from the cockpit of that Liberator aircraft. The film lasts exactly 5 minutes and six seconds, the time it would take the plane to circle the centre of Warsaw.

Production of the film by Platige Image Studio took two years with a workforce of 30, reconstructing the ruins from hundreds of archive photos and maps and processed in 3D.

The film is directed by the Oscar nominated Tomasz Baginski and will be premiered at the Warsaw Rising Museum on August 1, as part of the 66th anniversary of the heroic but ultimately doomed resistance. (pg)

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