Info
Synopsis
Cast
Awards
Genre
- Essayistic Feature-Length Documentary
Countries of Production
- Germany / Poland
Language
- (OV) Polish
World premiere
- 29th April 2019 – hotDOCS FF Toronto
German cinema release
- 8th September 2022
a production by
- Pallas Film and Otter Films
with the support of
- MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Eurimages – Conseil de l'Europe, FFA – Filmförderanstalt, Creative Europe, Polish Film Institute, Mazovia & Warsaw Film Fund
World Sales
- German Documentaries Service (GDS)
Distribution
- Pallas Film
The film comes to some extent out of a call by Marek Edelman, the former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who witnessed the extermination in the Warsaw Ghetto throughout its existence. In 2009, he published a book based on his own experience I BYŁA MIŁOŚD W GETCIE… (AND THERE WAS LOVE IN THE GHETTO…)
Why doesn’t anybody ask me if there was love in the ghetto? Why is nobody interested in this subject? Someone should make a film about love in the ghetto. It was love that let us survive.
This is how the book ends. Because love in Marek Edelman’s book proves to be the most important value, even more precious than life.
And this is what the film is about.
Narrator
- Marek Edelman
Dola
- Aleksandra Poplawska
Ethnic German
- Marek Kalita
Mrs. Tennenbaum
- Alina Swidowska
Deda
- Maria Semotiuk
Deda’s friend
- Eryk Kulm
Landlady
- Aleksandra Justa
Tosia
- Kamilla Baar
Old Jew
- Lech Mackiewicz
Hendusia Himelfarb
- Julia Sierakowska
Pola Lifszyc
- Patrycja Rojecka
Piotr Zurawski
- Janek Bilak
Written by
- Jolanta Dylewska, Agnieszka Holland
Directed by
- Jolanta Dylewska, Andrzej Wajda
Producers
- Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Anna Wydra
Director of photography
- Jakub Kijowski, Jolanta Dylewska
Editor
- Izabela Pajak
Set design
- Anna Wunderlich, Marcin Aziukiewicz
Casting
- Ewa Brodzka, Etl Szyc
production manager
- Marta Golba, Joanna Szymańska
Line producer
- Anna Wydra
Location Sound
- Zofia Moruś, Paulina Bochenska, Aleksandra Pniak
Make up
- Olga Nejbauer, Ewa Kowalewska
Costumes
- Marta Ostrowicz
- Docs Against Gravity FF, Warsaw (Jury Special Mention)
- hotDOCS FF, Toronto
- Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi, Warsaw
- HER DOCS, Warsaw
- Energa CAMERIMAGE IFF, Toruń
- IFF Triest
- ASTRA FFF, Sibiu Romania
- Polish FF Kinoteka, London
- Polish FF in America, Chicago
- Golden Frog for Jakub Kijowski, Jolanta Dylewska (Best Camera) / CAMERIMAGE
- Best Documentary / Polish Film Academy Awards - Orły
