Film

Samson (1961)

• 11 september 1961
• 1u 57m

• Drama

Overzicht

A young Jewish man from Warsaw is imprisoned after an antisemitic incident at his university. He is released when the Second World War breaks out and manages to escape from the ghetto. However, he chooses to leave his hiding place and fight, determined to share the fate of those threatened by the Holocaust. The protagonist is compared to the biblical Samson, who sacrificed his own life.

Regisseur

Andrzej Wajda

Scenaristen

Kazimierz Brandys, Andrzej Wajda

Met in de hoofdrol

Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elżbieta Kępińska