Warsaw: A City Divided
The Nazi destruction of a European city
2019 · 1h 11m · N/A Documentary, History
Overview
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Director and cast
- Krystyna Budnicka as Self - Ghetto Inhabitant
- Zygmunt Walkowski as Self - Photographer
- Józef Hen as Self - Writer
- Irena Agata Bołdok as Self - Ghetto Inhabitant
- Niels Gutschow as Self - Architecture Historian
- Aleksandra Polisiewicz as Self - Artist
- Michael Schudrich as Self - Chief Rabbi of Poland
- Eleonora Bergman as Self - Architecture Historian
- Jakub Szczęsny as Self - Architect
- Beata Chomątowska as Self - Writer
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