Korczak (film)

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] 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]

Korczak
Monument in Warsaw
Directed byAndrzej Wajda
Ami Drozd
Produced byJanusz Morgenstern
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Regina Ziegler
Written byAgnieszka Holland
StarringWojciech Pszoniak
Ewa Dałkowska
Music byWojciech Kilar
CinematographyRobby Müller
Edited byEwa Smal
Release date
  • 6 May 1990 (1990-05-06)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryPoland
Germany
LanguagePolish

Reception

Among 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

See also

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Korczak". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  2. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film29.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Ewa Mazierska (15 June 2007). Adapt to Survive and Express Oneself (Google books preview). The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller. I.B.Tauris. pp. 157–158. ISBN 9781845112974. Retrieved 16 February 2013.


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