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.
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Writer
Janusz Morgenstern
Director
Zbigniew Józefowicz
SS-man (uncredited)
Leopold Rene Nowak
Driver (uncredited)
Marek Sniatkiewicz
Boy (uncredited)
Bogusław Sochnacki
Watchman (uncredited)
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