The Passenger (film)

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Movie
German title The Passenger (film)
Original title Pasażerka
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1963
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Andrzej Munk
Witold Lesiewicz
script Zofia Posmysz ,
Andrzej Munk
production Zespół Filmowy camera
music Tadeusz Baird
camera Krzysztof Winiewicz
cut Zofia Dwornik
occupation

The Passenger is a Polish feature film from 1963.

action

The German couple Liza and Walter take a ship across the Atlantic . They are a harmonious couple full of love and affection for one another, but know very little about their past. A woman joins them in a harbor, whom Liza looks very familiar. Memories from wartime come back to life. Liza was with the SS during the war and worked as a guard in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . The woman she is seeing again on the ship is Marta, who was a prisoner in Auschwitz. The film tells in flashbacks what happened in Auschwitz when Liza tortured Marta as a brutal guard. Liza was firmly convinced that Marta was no longer alive. In the present, she tells herself a seemingly unreal counter-story to the film's flashbacks.

background

Shooting of the film began in 1961. Andrzej Munk had just finished the flashback scenes in Auschwitz and had a fatal accident on his return to Warsaw by car. Only two years later did his closest colleague Witold Lesiewicz finish the film, which nevertheless seems more like a fragment of Munk's work. For the Polish actress Aleksandra Śląska it was the second time that she played a German concentration camp guard. As early as 1948 she played such a role in Wanda Jakubowska's Auschwitz drama The Last Stage .

The supervisor is modeled on Maria Mandl .

Reviews

“The cautiously haunting memory image is the last film by Andrzej Munk. After the director's fatal accident, the work was completed by Munk's employees. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival in 1964 . The film received the FIPRESCI award in Cannes . Andrzej Munk also received a special award from the jury for his complete work. In Venice he received the Italian Film Critics Prize.

literature

  • Mohammad AS Sarhangi: Counter-narratives. An experiment about Andrzej Munks The Passenger (Pasażerka) . In: WerkstattGeschichte , Volume 61, H. 5, 2013, pp. 88-102 ( PDF ).

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