Ambulance

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

11 min

Cast:

Zbigniew Józefowicz, Leopold Rene Nowak, Marek Sniatkiewicz

Quality:

HD

Director:

Janusz Morgenstern

Release:

1961

Country:

Poland

Rating:

6.5