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Holy Week

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Original title

Wielki tydzien

Year

1995

Running time

97 min.

Country

Poland

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Screenwriter

Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Andrzejewski

Cast

Cinematography

Wit Dabal

Producer

Co-production Poland-Germany-France;

Agency for Film Production, Berliner Spiele, Canal+, Héritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, TVP S.A Telewizja Polska

Genre

Drama. War | Holocaust. Nazism. II World War

Synopsis

As the Warsaw Ghetto burns, a Jewish woman seeks sanctuary with a former boyfriend on the Christian side of the city. Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Jerzy Andrzejewski’s short story Holy Week is an inquiry into the relationship between Polish Christians and Polish Jews during World War II. If Jan hides Irena in his home, he will be committing a crime for which the sentence in Nazi-occupied Poland is death for the perpetrator and his family. His humanitarian nature still shines through, and the two forge a tense but caring new chapter in their deeply rooted relationship.

Awards: 1996: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Andrzej Wajda)

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Holy Week

1995

Andrzej Wajda