Ambulance

Ambulance by Janusz Morgenstern

6.00

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.

Genres:

Cast

Zbigniew Józefowicz

Zbigniew Józefowicz as SS-man (uncredited)

Leopold Rene Nowak

Leopold Rene Nowak as Driver (uncredited)

Marek Sniatkiewicz

Marek Sniatkiewicz as Boy (uncredited)

Bogusław Sochnacki

Bogusław Sochnacki as Watchman (uncredited)

If you like Ambulans, you would like these...

Made by edimario

Movie Db Api Logo