Obrazy Holokaustu w filmach z okresu polskiej szkoły filmowej (1955-1965)

• Authors: Marek Haltof

Title variants

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IMAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN FILMS OF THE POLISH FILM SCHOOL (1955-1965)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses the ways Holocaust was presented in Polish films that were made during the existence of the Polish Film School. Using the examples of films, the majority of which remains in the shadow of the great „canon” of the Polish school, Haltof attempts to place the image of Holocaust presented in them within the artistic, historical and political context. The author analyses films such as Andrzej Wajda’s Samson, and Generation, Ewa and Czeslaw Petelski’s Barker, Stanislaw Rozewicz’s Birth Certificate, Jerzy Zarzycki’s White Bear, and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger, as well as two short films: Andrzej Brzozowski’s By the Railway Track, and Janusz Morgenstern’s Ambulance. By analyzing them, the author writes about how ways of connecting and disconnecting the Polish and Jewish fate, the tragedy of children that were victims of the Holocaust, about the attitudes of Poles towards Jews seeking help, and of the film attempts to find the psychological dimension of the relationship between the oppressed and the oppressors.

Keywords

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Holocaust; Polish films; Polish Film School; Wajda Andrzej; Petelski Ewa and Czesław; Rozewicz Stanislaw; Zarzycki Jerzy; Munk; Brzozowski; Morgenstern Janusz; Samson; Generation; Barker; Birth Certificate; White Bear; The Passenger; By the Railway Track; Ambulance; relationship between the oppressed and the oppressors; Polish cinema; history of film

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 77-78
• Pages: 112-146

Contributors

author

Marek Haltof