Korczak (Film)
- Wojciech Pszoniak: Janusz Korczak
- Ewa Dałkowska: Stefania Wilczynska
- Teresa Budzisz - Krzyżanowska: Maryna Rogowska - Falska
- Marzena Trybała: Estera
- Piotr Kozlowski: Heniek
- Zbigniew Zamachowski: Ichak Szulc
- January Peszek: Max Bauer
- Danuta Szaflarska: woman farmer, his mother
- Aleksander Bardini: Adam Czerniaków
Korczak is a German - Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda in 1990.
Action
The film is set during World War II in 1942 in Warsaw. He tells the last weeks in the life of Polish-Jewish doctor, children's author and educator Janusz Korczak. Korczak directs a company founded by his orphanage. After establishment of the Warsaw ghetto orphanage also be with the Jewish children have to move to the ghetto. Even in the ghetto, he sacrifices himself for his children. Around 200 Jewish children he cared for under the most adverse circumstances. He teaches the children in these times of extreme need that they have to live their lives independently. Under his guidance, the children choose a children's Government in order to organize themselves better. Korczak collects for the children of the Jews who still have something in the ghetto. In August 1942, the Nazis began with Abtransporten of Jews from the ghetto to extermination camps. Also Korczak 200 children will be taken away. Shortly before the evacuation Korczak receives the opportunity to leave with a Swiss passport, the ghetto. But Korczak refused to leave his children, and rising with them to the freight cars traveling in the Treblinka extermination camp.
Reviews
" In almost documentary black and white images, backed by authentic recordings, the film traces the impressively played portrait of a person who educates the children entrusted to him even in the most difficult time for justice, brotherhood and tolerance. "
" For the work in the school, the film - despite some objections - a stroke of luck. Wajda's film should be used for teaching, whether history, ethics, pedagogy or current events are on the program. "
Awards
Robby Müller in 1991 received the German Film Award for his camera work.