Ambulance

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Zbigniew Józefowicz

SS-man (uncredited)

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Leopold Rene Nowak

Driver (uncredited)

Age : 90 | Popularity : 3%

Marek Sniatkiewicz

Boy (uncredited)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Bogusław Sochnacki

Watchman (uncredited)

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Tadeusz Łomnicki
Sound	Music	Krzysztof Komeda
	Sound	Jan Radlicz
Editing	Editor	Janina Niedźwiecka
Camera	Director of Photography	Jerzy Lipman
Directing	Director	Janusz Morgenstern
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