Film

Ambulans (1961)

• 1. Januar 1961
• 11 Min.

• Drama

Übersicht

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

Regisseur

Janusz Morgenstern

Drehbuchautoren

Tadeusz Łomnicki

Besetzung

Zbigniew Józefowicz, Leopold Rene Nowak, Marek Sniatkiewicz