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""Henryk Goldszmit had become a Polish icon in the 1930s, through his writings, teachings, and radio programs for children, under the name of Janusz Korczak. WHen the kids from the Warsaw orphanage were to be deported to the gas chambers of Treblinka, he refused ot abandon them, and with them he died in the Holocaust. Academy award winning director Andrzej Wajda (Katyn) brings this tragic tale to the screen in Korczak, starring Wojciech Pszoniak as the kind and fiercely committed doctor. After the Nazis invade Poland, the Jewish Korczak and his orphans are moved into the newly formed Ghettos, where he scrounges for food and vainly tries to protect the children from the violence and famine outside their walls. With a powerful script by Agnieszka Holand (Europa Europa), stunning B&W cinematography by Robby Müller (Dead Man), and performed with self-immolating intensity by Pozoniak and the phenomenally talented ensemble of child actors, Korczak is, as Steven Spielberg wrote, "one of the most important European pictures about the Holocaust"--container."
"Ein zutiefst bewegender Film über den unerschöpflichen Mut angesichts unberechenbaren Risikos und unvorstellbaren Horrors. Wajda zeigt uns die entwürdigende und entwürdigte Realität des Ghettos in totalem Schwarz-weiss. Ein erschüttender Film. Der Leidensweg des polnisch-jüdischen Kinderarztes, Schriftstellers und Pädagogen Janusz Korczak und seiner 200 Waisenkinder im Warschauer Ghetto. Das eindrucksvolle Porträt eines Menschen, der die ihm anvertrauten Kinder selbst in schwierigster Zeit zu Gerechtigkeit, Brüderlichkeit und Toleranz erzieht. "Die Lebenswege grosser Menschen gleichen Legenden - sie sind beschwerlich, aber schön", schrieb Korczak. Am 6. August 1942 wurde sein Leben zur Legende, als ihn die SS zwang, "seine" Kinder hinter der Fahne mit dem Davidsstern zum Zug nach Treblinka zu führen. Er verzichtete darauf, sein eigenes Leben zu retten und starb gemeinsam mit ihnen."
"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."
"True story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930s Warsaw."
"Tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930's Warsaw."
"The film shows three years of war of Janusz Korczak spent with the children from an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto."
"Tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930s Warsaw."
"On August 6, 1942, Janusz Korczac's life became a legend when the S.S. forced him to gather the two hundred orphans he was tending in the Warsaw ghetto. Refusing to save his life, he defiantly led "his" children, behind the Star of David flag, to the train that was to take them to Treblinka. He died there with them."
"Tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author, who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930's Warsaw."
"Black and white. Polish with Engish subtitles."
"The film opens in the late 1930s with pediatrician, writer, teacher, and radio personality Korczak working as the administrator of an orphanage in the slums of Warsaw. When the Nazis invade Poland, move Korczak and his Jewish charges into the ghetto, and begin shipping cattle cars full of adult Jews to Treblinka, the doctor does everything in his power to try to protect the children from the uglier aspects of the ominous quarantine."
"During World War II, the dedicated director of an orphanage for Jewish children refuses to desert his charges and takes refuge with them in the Warsaw Ghetto when the Poles begin to turn against the Jews."
"In the late 1930s, pediatrician, writer, teacher, and radio personality Korczak is working as the administrator of an orphanage in the slums of Warsaw. When the Nazis invade Poland, move Korczak and his Jewish charges into the ghetto, and begin shipping cattle cars full of adult Jews to Treblinka, the doctor does everything in his power to try to protect the children from the uglier aspects of the ominous quarantine."
"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."
"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."@en