Ambulance

Poland1961fiction9'Pokaz specjalny (2023)

Janusz Morgenstern's short film touches on a rarely addressed and tabooed theme from World War II - the extermination of Jewish children. Deprived of agency and the right to vote, the children, waiting in a large square until a Nazi officer decides their fate, do not lose their joy of life and desire to play, as if in spite of the terrible circumstances into which History has thrown them. The horror and tragedy of the screen events is further conquered by Krzysztof Komeda's music