Samson (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Samson |
| Original title | Samson |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| script | Andrzej Wajda |
| production | Film studio Kadr |
| music | Tadeusz Baird |
| camera | Jerzy Wójcik |
| cut | Janina Niedzwiecka |
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Samson is a Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda in 1961 . The German premiere was only on November 6, 1967 on the second German television. The script is based on a novel by Kazimierz Brandys , an in-depth psychological study of a man who accidentally kills a comrade in an argument and is imprisoned. At the beginning of the Second World War he was released and then again imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto . Again he escapes and finds himself trapped, this time in a world of non-Jews where the threat is omnipresent.
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The Jew Jakob Gold studied at a Polish university before the outbreak of the Second World War. He comes into conflict with national students who are anti-Semitic. In the event of an argument, one of his fellow students dies by his hand, without Jakob being guilty. When the prison gates open for him after serving his sentence, Poland is at war and is occupied by the German armed forces. This rounded up the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. When Jakob finds his mother there again, she is already dead.
Jakob manages to escape the ghetto. However, he has difficulty finding his way in the “free” world. He finds refuge first with Lucyna, a Jew who has so far been able to hide her ancestry successfully, then with old Melina, with whom he had to share the cell in prison. Everywhere, however, he is plagued by doubts as to whether he can escape the lot of his people. After leaving the old man, he finds out that the Warsaw Ghetto no longer exists. Jakob then joins a group of Polish resistance fighters and dies with them.
Reviews
“A harrowing, at the same time symbolically encrypted film, which, without heroizing its hero, relates the individual fate to the suffering of the Jewish people. Careful and disciplined in staging and camera work "
“The Polish contribution Samson (based on a novel by Kazimierz Brandys) deserves a lot of serious attention . The film made by Andrzej Wajda, which aims to reflect the fate of Polish Jews in an individual story, follows the same tradition of gloom as Wajdas Kanal : Reality becomes a stylized nightmare, a vision that conjures up a horror that can no longer be directly expressed . "
“Wajda's interest goes beyond pure reporting. It focuses on the emotional problems of a person under the pressure of an inhuman time "
“Using the example of the young Jakob Gold, Andrzej Wajda looks at the fate of the Warsaw Jews in the last war and relates it to the 5,000-year ordeal of the Jewish people. The sometimes strongly symbolic coding of the topic makes the film understandable only for mature people. "
Web links
- Samson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Samson on filmpolski.pl with photos
- Movie announcement in Toronto
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Evangelischer Filmbeobachter (EFB), 19th year 1967, p. 641.
- ↑ Samson. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich Gregor : Philosophy has moved into the cinema . In: Die Zeit , No. 38, September 15, 1961.
- ^ Reclam's film guide . 2nd edition, 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 .