Korczak (film)
| Korczak | |
|---|---|
 Monument in Warsaw | |
| Directed by | Andrzej Wajda |
| Produced by |
Janusz Morgenstern Daniel Toscan du Plantier Regina Ziegler |
| Written by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Starring |
Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Dałkowska |
| Music by | Wojciech Kilar |
| Cinematography | Robby Müller |
| Edited by | Ewa Smal |
Release dates | 6 May 1990 |
Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country |
Poland Germany |
| Language | Polish |
Korczak, is a 1990 film by Andrzej Wajda shot in black-and-white, about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Reception
The epic was bitterly attacked during its Festival screening by some political commentators in France, notably, by virulently anti-Polish Claude Lanzmann, who would prefer to see the Poles being portrayed as the villains.[2] Yet, among its strongest defendants was Marek Edelman, the Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Wajda himself, saw the idea of showing the children being led into the Treblinka gas chambers as cheap tear jerker.[3][4] Annette Insdorf, a film scholar and strong supporter of Wajda, considers Korczak to be a masterpiece alongside Wajda's own Ashes and Diamonds, in her commentary of Criterion Collection's DVD release of Wajda's War Trilogy.
Cast
- Wojciech Pszoniak - Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
- Ewa Dałkowska - Stefania 'Stefa' Wilczynska
- Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska - Maryna Rogowska-Falska
- Marzena Trybała - Estera
- Piotr Kozłowski - Heniek
- Zbigniew Zamachowski - Ichak Szulc
- Jan Peszek - Max Bauer
- Aleksander Bardini - Adam Czerniaków
- Maria Chwalibóg - Czerniaków's wife
- Andrzej Kopiczyński - Dyrektor w Polskim Radiu
- Krystyna Zachwatowicz - Szloma's mother
- Jerzy Zass - German wachman on the bridge
- Wojciech Klata - Szloma
- Michał Staszczak - Józek
- Agnieszka Krukówna - Ewka (as Agnieszka Kruk)
References
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Korczak". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Stephen Engelberg (April 14, 1991). "FILM; Wajda's 'Korczak' Sets Loose the Furies". Collections. Film. The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film29.html. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Ewa Mazierska (June 15, 2007). "Adapt to Survive and Express Oneself" (GOOGLE BOOKS PREVIEW). The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller. I.B.Tauris. pp. 157–158. Retrieved February 16, 2013.