Warsaw: A City Divided
“The Nazi destruction of a European city”
2019•1h 11m•6.8•Released
DocumentaryHistory
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
Eric Bednarski
Writer
Eric Bednarski
Languages
English, Polish
Studio
Pado Studio Film
Cast
Krystyna Budnicka
Self - Ghetto Inhabitant
Zygmunt Walkowski
Self - Photographer
Józef Hen
Self - Writer
Irena Agata Bołdok
Self - Ghetto Inhabitant
Niels Gutschow
Self - Architecture Historian
Aleksandra Polisiewicz
Self - Artist
Michael Schudrich
Self - Chief Rabbi of Poland
Eleonora Bergman
Self - Architecture Historian
Jakub Szczęsny
Self - Architect
Beata Chomątowska
Self - Writer
Adam Bauman
Self - Quote Reader (voice)
Justyna Gardzińska
Self - Quote Reader (voice)
Jarosław Łukomski
Self - Quote Reader (voice)
Israel Gutman
Self - Historian (archive footage)
Production
Company
Pado Studio Film
Company
Telewizja Polska
Company
Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury
Company
Instytut Adama Mickiewicza - Culture.pl
Producer
Dorota Przyłubska
Producer
Wojciech Frączek
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