Life for life - Maximilian Kolbe ( Polish Życie za życie. Maksymilian Kolbe ) is a biography of Father Maximilian Kolbe OFM from 1991.
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The concentration camp Auschwitz in July 1941. A Polish prisoner from Silesia, Jan, manages a daring but unexpected flight. Thereupon the camp commandant Fritsch sentenced ten of his fellow prisoners to death in the hunger bunker. When one of them - the father of 15-year-old Piotrek - collapsed while the death sentence was pronounced, Maximilian Kolbe gave his life on his behalf and died of starvation. From now on Jan is not only on the run from the Gestapo, but also from his guilt, his involvement in Kolbe's death. Another figure appears: Brother Anzelm, a young Franciscan priest from the Niepokalanów convent , who calmly and steadfastly promotes the beatification process . Towards the end of the war and for many years afterwards, he and Jan investigate Kolbe's motives from completely different points of view.
criticism
"The formally woodcut-like, often too laboriously constructed film is especially important because of its examination of the value of human life and the encounter with a person who offers a convincing counter-image to an often meaningless present."
