Korczak

Korczak

Genre

Drama, Documentary

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Run time

1h 55min

Henryk Goldszmit had become a Polish icon in the 1930s through his writings, teachings, and radio programs for children, under the pen name of Janusz Korczak. However anti-semitism is on the increase and Korczak’s radio show is stopped, but he remains defiantly optimistic. After the Nazis invade Poland, the Jewish-origin Korczak and his orphans are moved into the newly formed Ghetto, where he scrounges for food and tries to protect the children from the violence and hunger around them. He refuses offers of favourable treatment or escape in order to remain with the children. When the orphanage is deported to Treblinka, he refuses final offers to escape and accompanies them to their deaths in the gas chambers.

Patron of the Korczak 2012 Year to Estonia is Ene Ergma – Chairman of The Riigikogu.

Main organizer of Korczak’s Year events is the Embassy of the Republic of Poland to Estonia www.tallinn.msz.gov.pl

Film is presented on the occasion of 70-th anniversary of Korczak’s death and 100th anniversary of the first modern-type orphanage establishment in Warsaw by the “Reformer of the World”.

Genre

Drama, Documentary

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Run time

1h 55min

Henryk Goldszmit had become a Polish icon in the 1930s through his writings, teachings, and radio programs for children, under the pen name of Janusz Korczak. However anti-semitism is on the increase and Korczak’s radio show is stopped, but he remains defiantly optimistic. After the Nazis invade Poland, the Jewish-origin Korczak and his orphans are moved into the newly formed Ghetto, where he scrounges for food and tries to protect the children from the violence and hunger around them. He refuses offers of favourable treatment or escape in order to remain with the children. When the orphanage is deported to Treblinka, he refuses final offers to escape and accompanies them to their deaths in the gas chambers.

Patron of the Korczak 2012 Year to Estonia is Ene Ergma – Chairman of The Riigikogu.

Main organizer of Korczak’s Year events is the Embassy of the Republic of Poland to Estonia www.tallinn.msz.gov.pl

Film is presented on the occasion of 70-th anniversary of Korczak’s death and 100th anniversary of the first modern-type orphanage establishment in Warsaw by the “Reformer of the World”.

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2012

Global distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/26/2012