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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

Email
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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