Korczak 1990
Synopsis
The year 1936. Dr. Korczak, a host of a popular radio talk, is summoned to his superior\'s office to find out that his program has been taken off the air. Disappointed with this manifestation of anti-Semitism, he totally dedicates himself to educational work. He runs an orphanage for Jewish children and gives lectures at the Medical Academy.
In September 1939 the war breaks out. During a defense of Warsaw Korczak serves as a military doctor. After the surrender of the city he returns to his orphanage, which is soon after moved to the ghetto. Doctor Korczak stays with \'his\' children to the end, up to the deportation to the Treblinka concentration camp.
The film is a biographical story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish pedagogue of Jewish origin, whose name, owing to his life and heroic death in Treblinka, went down in history.
Awards
1991 – The Filmmaking Committee Chairman\'s Award for filmmaking output in the feature film category (Andrzej Wajda)
1991 – The Filmmaking Committee Chairman\'s Award for best actor in the feature film category (Wojciech Pszoniak)
1991 – The Filmmaking Committee Chairman\'s Award for best score in the feature film category (Wojciech Kilar)
1990 – Cannes International Film Festival – Jury\'s Special Mention
About
Year of production:
1990
Producer:
Janusz Morgenstern, Regina Ziegler, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Genre:
war film, biographical film
Premiere:
06-05-1990
Technical specs:
Black and white, 113 min.
Production:
Perspektywa Film Studio, Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Telmar Film International Ltd., Erato Films, ZDF, BBC Films
Filmmakers
Directed by:
Andrzej Wajda
Written by:
Agnieszka Holland
Cinematography by:
Robby Muller
Edited by:
Ewa Smal
Music by:
Wojciech Kilar
Sound by:
Janusz Rosół
Set Decoration by:
Allan Starski
Costume Designer:
Wiesława Starska, Małgorzata Stefaniak
Production Manager:
Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Cast
Wojciech Pszoniak (Janusz Korczak),
Ewa Dałkowska (Stefa Wilczyńska, joint head of the orphanage)
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska (Maria Falska, Korczak\'s friend),
Marzena Trybała (Esterka, caregiver at the orphanage),
Piotr Kozlowski (Heniek, caregiver at the orphanage),
Zbigniew Zamachowski (Icek Szulc, Korczak\'s grown-up foster child),
Jan Peszek (Max Bauer),
Aleksander Bardini (Adam Czerniaków, head of the Judenrat),
Wojciech Klata (Szloma, Korczak\'s charge),
Krystyna Zachwatowicz (Szloma\'s mother),
Jerzy Zass (German guard on the bridge watching Korczak),
Michał Staszczak (Józek, Korczak\'s foster child),
Agnieszka Krukówna (Ewa),
Karolina Czernicka (Natka, Korczak\'s foster child),
Maria Weymayr,
Anna Mucha (Sabinka, Korczak\'s foster child),
Adam Siemion (Abramek, Korczak\'s foster child),
Marek Bargiełowski (doctor Gepner, member of the Judenrat),
Maria Chwalibóg (Czerniakow\'s wife, member of the Judenrat),
Andrzej Kopiczyński (director in the Polish Radio),
Robert Atzorn,
Janusz Bukowski (Polish doctor at the prison),
Stanisława Celińska (saleswoman),
Edgar Hoppe,
Bernhard Howe,
Ewa Isajewicz-Telega (Korczak\'s grown-up foster child),
Piotr Kazimierski,
Grzegorz Klein,
Zygmunt Kęstowicz (Piotr Zalewski, worker at the orphanage),
Agnieszka Kumor,
Olaf Lubaszenko (motorman shot for bread distribution in the ghetto),
Katarzyna Łaniewska (worker at the orphanage),
Alicja Migulanka (washerwoman at the summer resort),
Włodzimierz Press (Jew on the ghetto street, the camp escapee),
Jan Prochyra (Gancwajch),
Danuta Szaflarska (Bauer\'s mother),
Aniela Świderska-Pawlik,
Zbigniew Suszyński (student talking to Korczak in September 1939),
Tomasz Traczyński,
Jerzy Walczak (in the opening credits appeared under the name of Jan),
Maciej Winkler,
Jacek Wójcicki (Korczak\'s foster child, Bundu fighter),
Wojciech Radecki,
Witold Bieliński (German, the orphanage liquidator),
Stanisław Brudny (Pole in prison praying for Korczak),
Jacek Domański,
Tadeusz Hanusek,
Hanna Kossowska (woman),
Grzegorz Pawłowski (Korczak\'s assistant at the University),
Teresa Szmigielówna,
Aleksander Trąbczyński (Gestapo officer in charge of the filming at the ghetto)