Directed by:
Wanda JakubowskaCinematography:
Borys MonastyrskiComposer:
Roman PalesterCast:
Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatyana Guretskaya, Antonina Gordon-Górecka, Mariya Vinogradova, Barbara Drapińska, Barbara Fijewska, Anna Lutosławska (more)Plots(1)
The female prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp come from many countries. Wanda Jakubowska drew from numerous individual testimonies for her realistic depiction of everyday life there, a balancing act between forced labour and the infirmary, between death threats and the will to live. The cruelty of the guards and the SS mass murders are on full display. But amid the constant pall of smoke from the crematoria chimneys, there are also acts of opposition and solidarity as the women prepare for their liberation by Russia’s Red Army. (Berlinale)
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