The world’s first digital stereoscopic reconstruction of a city destroyed during World War II.
The film depicts a flyover of the Liberator airplane over the razed and depopulated city of Warsaw, portraying the sheer scale of destruction intentionally wrought upon the capital following the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Compiling the source material and processing the enormous amount of information took over a year. Aerial imagery and photographs found in museum collections served as references for the film.
Properly dividing up Warsaw’s enormous area was the greatest production challenge facing the filmmakers. The entire area of the city was divided into over 30 sectors.
Once designed, each individual object had to be placed onto a virtual landscape. Additionally, 40 landmark buildings that played important roles in the city’s history were modeled with a greater degree of precision.
The reconstructed city of Warsaw features:
* 63,000 separate models
* 40 landmarks
* 6 months of composing
* 2 months of rendering
Credits
Production:
- The Warsaw Rising Museum
- Jan Ołdakowski
- Piotr Śliwowski
Production:
- The Warsaw Rising Museum
- Jan Ołdakowski
- Piotr Śliwowski
Executive Production:
- Platige Image
- Jarosław Sawko
- Piotr Sikora
- Tomek Bagiński
Executive producer:
Historical consultation:
- Krzysztof Jaszczyński
- Ryszard Mączewski –
- Fundacja „Warszawa1939.pl”
- Krzysztof Jaszczyński
CG Supervisor:
Director:
Production manager:
Modelling and textures:
- Paweł Szczeszek
- Krzysztof Dolaś
- Michał Dzięcielski
- Jarosław Handrysik
- Piotr Kolus
- Paweł Dudek
- Piotr Arendarski
- Marcin Więch
- Rafał Kidziński
- Marcin Stępień
- Łukasz Smaga
- Tomasz Cechowski
- Piotr Hermaszewski
- Dominik Zając
- Krystian Pawlik
- Jakub Bogacki
- Mariusz Firnyś
- Mariusz Waszczur
- Michał Firkowski
- Bartosz Kazberuk
- Tomasz Wirkus
Set assemblers:
- Tomasz Wirkusz
- Piotr Kolus
- Jarosław Handrysik
- Michał Gryn
- Kamil Pohl
Rendering:
Compositing:
- Wojtek Bagiński
- Adam Janeczek
Concepts:
Stereoscopy:
R&D:
Music:
Genetix Sound Studio
During the production we used photografic documentation from collections of: Wojskowe Centrum Geograficzne (Military Geographic Centre), „Warszawa1939.pl” Foundation, The Warsaw Rising Museum
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