Korczak
1990 · 1 hr 58 min
Not Rated7.483%76%
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of high principles. He is unafraid of shouting at German officers and frequently has to be persuaded to save his own life. His orphanage, set up in a cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto, provides shelter to 200 homeless kids. Putting his experimental educational methods into practice, he installs a kind of children's self-government, whose justice is in a big contrast to what is happening in the outside world. Right in front of the school, dozens of kids are dying or being killed everyday and their naked bodies lie on the street unattended. Ghetto's mayor assures Korczak that the orphanages will be saved. Korczak raises food and money for the orphanage from the rich Jews. In the final roundup he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the train to Treblinka with his orphans.
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Andrzej WajdaWritten By
Agnieszka HollandStudio
Erato Films, Erbograph Co., BBC, ZDF, Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Zespol Filmowy "Perspektywa", Telmar Films Intl.Cast of Korczak
Wojciech PszoniakHenryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
Ewa DałkowskaStefania 'Stefa' Wilczynska
Teresa Budzisz-KrzyżanowskaMaryna Rogowska-Falska
Marzena TrybałaEstera
Piotr KozłowskiHeniek
Zbigniew ZamachowskiIchak Szulc
Jan PeszekMax Bauer
Aleksander BardiniAdam Czerniaków
Maria ChwalibógCzerniaków's wife
Andrzej KopiczyńskiDyrektor w Polskim Radiu
Krystyna ZachwatowiczSzloma's mother
Wojciech KlataSzloma
Jerzy ZassGerman wachman on the bridge
Anna MuchaSabinka
Janusz BukowskiPolish doctor in prison
Robert AtzornGerman Doctor
Stanisława CelińskaSklepowa
Ewa TelegaByla wychowanka Korczaka
Olaf LubaszenkoTramwajarz
Zygmunt KęstowiczPiotr Zalewski
Danuta SzaflarskaMrs. Bauer, Max's mother
Katarzyna ŁaniewskaPracownica w sierocincu Korczaka
Włodzimierz PressZyd na ulicy getta
Michał StaszczakJózek
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