A great, tragically truthful and sincere film. It is the work of art that leaves you with a heavy heart and with very sad, low mood. Mr. Wajda did a marvelous job depicting the tragedy of Dr. Janusz Korczak, a famous Polish Jew who was a writer, a doctor and who loved children with all his big heart. This black and white movie is very slow, tragic and merciless. The war is shown as it was - bloody, ruthless, cold-blooded and unbearable. The scene when the Nazi film crew makes a film in the ghetto is simply unutterably dark, especially when real documentaries creep in and you can see dying and dead people, skinny kids, sad faces and horrible ruins of Warsaw houses. The central story is excellent, as Dr. Korczak does his best in the horror of the ghetto trying to allow his 200 kids to live well as if there is no war outside. The final scene when the train carries them all to the death camp Treblinka makes your heart stop and when Wajda adds a symbolic final when all the children and their Doctor leave the train and go to the foggy morning, happy and kidding, made me cry. I was not able to stop my tears, my heart still aches now, when I recollect the scene of the happy children walking with the Jewish flag held high, and when you know that in fact they all suffocated in a gas chamber, while Korczak was telling them fairy tales just to make their deaths a bit sweeter if that was ever possible... A great, grand, moving work, and if there are people who did not cry after watching it, they have no heart. Thank you, Mr. Wajda. People like you will make us never forget that cruel war...
