Passenger (Pasazerka, Andrzej Munk, 1963, Poland)
The film follows an accidental encounter between an ex-Auschwitz inmate and her Nazi oppresssor. She the tells her husband of the the meeting and her vision of the events is shown and then the true events come after.
Passanger is not so much about the reality of concentration camps, as about the power of memory to immortalise and distort what happened in the past. It also does not dwell on the prisoners´ nationality nor the oppressors. It rather looks at the induviduals and their life in those harsh concentration camps.
This is Munks last film as he died in a crash during the filming. He was born in Krakow 1921 and spent his formative years there. In 1940 he moved to Warsaw and due to his Jewish origin he had to hide his true identity. He took apart in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. He enrolled in filmschool in 1947 and after he graduated he made numerous newsreels in Poland. In 1955 he made his first feature film, The Men of the Blue Cross ( Belkitny Krzyz). Munk is regarded, along with Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Has, as the greatest film author from Poland.
The film follows an accidental encounter between an ex-Auschwitz inmate and her Nazi oppresssor. She the tells her husband of the the meeting and her vision of the events is shown and then the true events come after.
Passanger is not so much about the reality of concentration camps, as about the power of memory to immortalise and distort what happened in the past. It also does not dwell on the prisoners´ nationality nor the oppressors. It rather looks at the induviduals and their life in those harsh concentration camps.
This is Munks last film as he died in a crash during the filming. He was born in Krakow 1921 and spent his formative years there. In 1940 he moved to Warsaw and due to his Jewish origin he had to hide his true identity. He took apart in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. He enrolled in filmschool in 1947 and after he graduated he made numerous newsreels in Poland. In 1955 he made his first feature film, The Men of the Blue Cross ( Belkitny Krzyz). Munk is regarded, along with Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Has, as the greatest film author from Poland.
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