Border Street
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Directed by | Aleksander Ford |
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Music by | Roman Palester |
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Distributed by | Film Polski |
Release date | 1948 |
Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Border Street (Polish:Ulica Graniczna) is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, and Władysław Godik.[1] The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews [2] by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[3] Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival.[4][5] The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký.
Cast[]
- Mieczysława Ćwiklińska as Mrs. Klara
- Jerzy Leszczyński as Dr. Józef Bialek
- Władysław Godik as Grandfather Libermann
- Władysław Walter as Cieplikowski
- Jerzy Pichelski as Kazimierz Wojtan
- Tadeusz Fijewski as Bronek Cieplikowski / Kusmirak's hair stylist
- as Kusmirak
- as Hans, Gestapo Officer
- as Natan Sziuliu
- as Fredek Kusmirak
- as David Libermann
- as Wladek Wojtan
- as Jadzia Bialkówna
- as Wanda Kusmirakówna
- as Wojtanowa
- Jewish Woman
- as Estera Libermann
- as Jewish Woman
- Gustav Nezval
- as Janitor Walenty
- Edward Dziewoński as Feldfebel
- as Geandarm
- Ida Kamińska as Helena
- as Woman
- as Man
- as Fire guard
- as Piszczykowa
References[]
- ^ Mazierska & Goddard p.83
- ^ Crowther, Bosley. "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Border Street,' Polish-Made Film Depicting Nazis' Purge of Warsaw Jews, Opens at Little Cine Met". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Reimer, Robert; Reimer, Carol (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 39.
- ^ Romanska, Magda (2012). The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor: History and Holocaust in 'Akropolis' and 'Dead Class'. Anthem Press. p. 127.
- ^ Danielewicz, Michał (2019). Ford.Reżyser. Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. p. 350.
Bibliography[]
- Ewa Mazierska & Michael Goddard. Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context. Boydell & Brewer, 2014.
External links[]
Categories:
- Polish-language films
- 1948 films
- 1948 drama films
- Polish films
- Polish drama films
- Films directed by Aleksander Ford
- Polish black-and-white films
- Polish film stubs