Korczak Movie Review 1990

Based on the life of Dr. Janusz Korczak, an outspoken critic of the Nazis, who ran the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, and accompanied 200 children to to the Treblinka concentration camp. Harshly poetic film quietly details Polish resistance to the Nazi terror. Criticized for end scenes of the children romping in the countryside, implying that they were somehow freed--since the director did not want to show the children actually entering the gas chambers, he used this allegory to imply that their souls were freed. In Polish with English subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 118 minutes.
Originally from Polish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

The Holocaust, True Stories, Doctors & Nurses, Adoption & Orphans, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, World War II, Biopics: Science/Medical

Screenplay

Agnieszka Holland

Cast

Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Piotr Kozlowski, Marzena Trybala, Wojciech Klata, Adam Siemion

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Producer

Andrzej Wajda