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19/04/1955 Documentary 0h 19m
70
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Overview

The documentary with commentary by Tadeusz Różewicz shows the everyday life of children a few years after the war and juxtaposes it with the children's experience of the "black seasons" - the loneliness, terror, hunger and misery of the Warsaw Ghetto.

  1. Kurt Weber

    Director

  2. Tadeusz Różewicz

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Halina Mikołajska

    Narrator (voice)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-16
There's an astonishing degree of optimism to this film, as the children playing offers us hope that the atrocities it goes on to graphically illustrate may never happen again. The bulk of this documentary shows the sheer devastation caused by the Nazi invasion of Poland. Not just to the nation's infrastructure but to it's brutalised population, too. There is a great deal of potent archive used throughout, but for me it is the photographs that punch hardest. The shoes, the spectacles, the images of despair and helplessness. It didn't matter about age or sex, whether you were strong or weak, ric...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Polish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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