Border Street

Border Street (Polish:Ulica Graniczna) is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik.[1] The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews [2] by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[3] Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival.[4][5] The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký.

Border Street
Directed byAleksander Ford
Written byJan Fethke
Aleksander Ford
Ludwik Starski
StarringMieczysława Ćwiklińska
Jerzy Leszczyński
Władysław Godik
Jerzy Złotnicki
Music byRoman Palester
CinematographyJaroslav Tuzar
Edited byJirina Lukesová
Production
company
Distributed byFilm Polski
Release date
1948
Running time
115 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Cast
  • Mieczysława Ćwiklińska as Mrs. Klara
  • Jerzy Leszczyński as Dr. Józef Bialek
  • Władysław Godik as Grandfather Libermann
  • Władysław Walter as Cieplikowski
  • Jerzy Pichelski as Kazimierz Wojtan
  • Tadeusz Fijewski as Bronek Cieplikowski / Kusmirak's hair stylist
  • Józef Munclinger as Kusmirak
  • Robert Vrchota as Hans, Gestapo Officer
  • Stefan Sródka as Natan Sziuliu
  • Eugeniusz Kruk as Fredek Kusmirak
  • Jerzy Zlotnicki as David Libermann
  • Dionizy Ilczenko as Wladek Wojtan
  • Maria Broniewska as Jadzia Bialkówna
  • Justyna Kreczmar as Wanda Kusmirakówna
  • Maria Zabczynska as Wojtanowa
  • Irena Renardówna as Jewish Woman
  • Janina Lukowska as Estera Libermann
  • Halina Raciecka as Jewish Woman
  • Gustav Nezval
  • Antonín Holzinger
  • Karel Hradilák
  • Jaroslav Orlický
  • P. Marek
  • N. Zarina
  • Bronisław Darski as Janitor Walenty
  • Edward Dziewoński as Feldfebel
  • S. Borowski
  • Karol Koszela
  • Stanissław Bielinski as Geandarm
  • Ida Kamińska as Helena
  • Maria Kedzierska as Woman
  • Wincenty Loskot as Man
  • Wojciech Pilarski as Fire guard
  • Helena Puchniewska as Piszczykowa

References
  1. Mazierska & Goddard p.83
  2. Crowther, Bosley. "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Border Street,' Polish-Made Film Depicting Nazis' Purge of Warsaw Jews, Opens at Little Cine Met". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  3. Reimer, Robert; Reimer, Carol (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 39.
  4. Romanska, Magda (2012). The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor: History and Holocaust in 'Akropolis' and 'Dead Class'. Anthem Press. p. 127.
  5. Danielewicz, Michał (2019). Ford.Reżyser. Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. p. 350.

Bibliography
  • Ewa Mazierska & Michael Goddard. Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context. Boydell & Brewer, 2014.
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