Ambulance

Ambulance

1961
11m
6.0

6.0/10

3 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

Status: Released

Language: PL

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Production Information

Production Companies
Se-Ma-For
Production Countries
Poland
Spoken Languages
Polish

Quick Facts

Original Title Ambulans
Release Date January 1, 1961
Status Released
Language PL
IMDb ID tt0172112

Cast

Zbigniew Józefowicz
Zbigniew Józefowicz

SS-man (uncredited)

Leopold Rene Nowak
Leopold Rene Nowak

Driver (uncredited)

Marek Sniatkiewicz
Marek Sniatkiewicz

Boy (uncredited)

Bogusław Sochnacki
Bogusław Sochnacki

Watchman (uncredited)

Key Crew

Tadeusz Łomnicki
Writer
Janusz Morgenstern
Director

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