Kanal (1957) Poster

(1957)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Kissing.
  • An unmarried couple are seen in bed. Not very graphic.

Violence & Gore

  • War, shooting, some people are wounded, some people are seen dying, some die.
  • A character is shot in the chest by machine gun fire, resulting in a bloody bullet wound.
  • A Nazi soldier gets beaten to death with a rock. Blood is seen on his face as he is beaten.
  • A woman shoots herself. The gunshot is offscreen. We see her face, but we are not shown the wound.
  • Some people are killed as a result of a gas attack.

Profanity

  • Just a little.
  • 1 use of the word 'bastard'
  • Frequent uses of 'Jesus Christ' and 'Jesus', 1 use of 'bastard', 'smart ass' and 'crap'. Several uses of 'damn' and 'Goddamn' and 'bloody' (1 use of 'bloody hell').

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some people drink alcohol to survive the hardships of the uprising.
  • Frequent smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Multiple characters lose their sanity during the film, sometimes leading to their supposed deaths. A character bursts into maniacal laughter and another character mindlessly walks away from the group, playing an ocarina, before disappearing for the rest of the film. Some audiences may find this behaviour upsetting.
  • A constant sense of danger from the start. People are heard screaming out of fear. Some audiences may find this slightly disturbing.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Near the end of the film, one of the characters escapes the canal, before immediately being captured by a group of Nazi soldiers. The camera pans towards a wall, where we see a pile of dead prisoners in a pool of blood who were supposedly executed. There are also blood splatters on the wall.
  • In the climax of the film, one of the characters attempts to disarm a booby trap consisting of barbed wire and German grenades. He successfully disarms the first two grenades, but fails at disarming the third, setting off the booby trap. We then see the bloodied dead body of that character hanging from the barbed wire. One of the more graphic moments in the film.

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