Ambulance, The
- Synopsis
- This short film reconstructs an incident involving a small group of Jewish children and shows how the Nazis used gas wagons, or gas vans, in Russia and Poland during World War II. The vans were used to kill victims of the regime - generally women and children - and were developed before gas chambers were devised as a more efficient method of mass murder. Made by Polish film director Janusz Morgenstern, the film won the Best Short Film Award at San Francisco Film Festival in 1962. The figure of the children’s teacher is based on Janusz Kor ak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish teacher who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and died with his pupils at Treblinka.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Poland
- Year of release
- 1962
- Subjects
- Film studies; History
- Keywords
- genocide; Holocaust; Jews; Judaism; Nazi Germany; World War II
Credits
- Director
- Janusz Morgenstern
- Cinematographer
- Jerzy Lipman
- Music
- Krzysztof Komeda
- Cast
Tadeusz Lomnicki
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £15.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 10 minutes
- Year
- 2012
Distributor
- Name
Concord Media
- sales@concordmedia.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726 012
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG - Notes
- A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.
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