Film

Ambulans (1961)

• 1 gennaio 1961
• 11m

• Dramma

Trama

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.

Regista

Janusz Morgenstern

Sceneggiatori

Tadeusz Łomnicki

Con

Zbigniew Józefowicz, Leopold Rene Nowak, Marek Sniatkiewicz