Border Street

Border Street
Border Street
Directed by	Aleksander Ford
Written by	Jan Fethke; Aleksander Ford; Ludwik Starski;
Starring	Mieczysława Ćwiklińska; Jerzy Leszczyński; Władysław Godik; ;
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by	Roman Palester
Production; company	Film Polski
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[]

Border Street at IMDb

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[1] Mazierska & Goddard p.83

[2] 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.

[3] Reimer, Robert; Reimer, Carol (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 39.

[4] Romanska, Magda (2012). The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor: History and Holocaust in 'Akropolis' and 'Dead Class'. Anthem Press. p. 127.

[5] Danielewicz, Michał (2019). Ford.Reżyser. Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. p. 350.

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