In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Zbigniew Józefowicz, Leopold Rene Nowak, Marek Sniatkiewicz, Bogusław Sochnacki
Crew: Krzysztof Komeda (Music), Jerzy Lipman (Director of Photography), Janina Niedźwiecka (Editor), Jan Radlicz (Sound), Tadeusz Łomnicki (Writer), Janusz Morgenstern (Director)
Country: Poland
Language: Polski
Studio: Se-Ma-For
Runtime: 11 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1961
IMDb: 5
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