Passenger (1963)
5/10
Passenger
18 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I found this Polish film in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book, I read that the director Andrzej Munk was partway through making this film, when he was killed in a car crash, Witold Lesiewicz completed the film with the footage available and imagery. Basically German woman Liza (Aleksandra Slaska) is coming back to Europe on a transatlantic ship, she has recollections from the past come back to she notices and recognises the face of another woman, Marta (Anna Ciepielewska). Liza is married, she explains to her husband that during the Second World War that she been an overseer at Auschwitz concentration camp, but she also says that she has saved the life of Marta, a former inmate at the camp. Also starring Jan Kreczmar as Walter, Irena Malkiewicz as Oberaufseherin Madel, Leon Pietraszkiewicz as Commandant Lagerkommandant Grabner and Janusz Bylczynski as Capo. The film is made up of the remaining footage filmed by the director before his death and still images from the true events, it certainly delivers the message that the Holocaust may belong to history, but it will never be forgotten, the camp sequences are certainly horrific, overall it was an interesting enough incomplete documentary style wartime drama. Worth watching!
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