Korczak is a 1990 black-and-white biographical war film directed by Andrzej Wajda and written by Agnieszka Holland, about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak. An international co-production between Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom, it stars Wojciech Pszoniak as Korczak, with Ewa Dałkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala, Piotr Kozlowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Jan Peszek.
| Korczak | |
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 Original Polish release poster | |
| Directed by | Andrzej Wajda |
| Written by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Produced by | Janusz Morgenstern Willi Segler Daniel Toscan du Plantier Regina Ziegler |
| Starring | Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Dałkowska Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska Marzena Trybala Piotr Kozlowski Zbigniew Zamachowski Jan Peszek |
| Cinematography | Robby Müller |
| Edited by | Ewa Smal |
| Music by | Wojciech Kilar |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | New Yorker Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Countries | Poland Germany United Kingdom |
| Language | Polish |
The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]
Reception
editAmong the strongest defendants of the epic was Marek Edelman, the Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Wajda saw the idea of showing the children being led into the Treblinka gas chambers as unnecessary addition of tearjerking moments.[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
edit- Wojciech Pszoniak - Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
- Ewa Dałkowska - Stefania 'Stefa' Wilczynska
- Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska - Maryna 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 - director at Polish Radio
- Krystyna Zachwatowicz - Szloma's mother
- Zbigniew Suszyński - student
- Jerzy Zass - German watchman on the bridge
- Wojciech Klata - Szloma
- Michał Staszczak - Józek
- Agnieszka Krukówna - Ewka (as Agnieszka Kruk)
- Anna Mucha - Sabinka
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Korczak". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ "Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Korczak"".
- ^ Ewa Mazierska (15 June 2007). Adapt to Survive and Express Oneself (Google books preview). I.B.Tauris. pp. 157–158. ISBN 9781845112974. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
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