Ashes And Diamonds

Andrzej Wajda - 1958
Very Wellesian, I felt. Constructing the space with huge fish-eye angles, very deep spaces. Often aggressively close to the camera, with surely on occassion projections to cope with some parts (the seperating of the frame, for example in the longer shot with the telephone, is presumably down to this). The setting to this is pretty mundane, and the better for that, showing a slightly grubby conference room, an average-ish day at a church at the start.
What happens in this film? Things aren't alright in Poland. No war heroes, no even clear villains, just a country with corruption and rather a lack of ideals. What kind of film can be made about this? This felt to me a pretty straightforward bit of art cinema, kind of worried ambiguous characters, a sort of story and psychology being told, very nice, a little dull.