Korczak is a 1990 black-and-white biographical war film directed by Andrzej Wajda and written by Agnieszka Holland, about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak. An international co-production between Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom, it stars Wojciech Pszoniak as Korczak, with Ewa Dałkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala, Piotr Kozlowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Jan Peszek.

Korczak
Original Polish release poster
Directed byAndrzej Wajda
Written byAgnieszka Holland
Produced byJanusz Morgenstern
Willi Segler
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Regina Ziegler
StarringWojciech Pszoniak
Ewa Dałkowska
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
Marzena Trybala
Piotr Kozlowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Jan Peszek
CinematographyRobby Müller
Edited byEwa Smal
Music byWojciech Kilar
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Distributed byNew Yorker Films
Release dates
  • 6 May 1990 (1990-05-06) (Poland)
  • 26 October 1990 (1990-10-26) (United Kingdom)
  • 21 March 1991 (1991-03-21) (Germany)
Running time
117 minutes
CountriesPoland
Germany
United Kingdom
LanguagePolish

The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

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Among the strongest defendants of the epic was Marek Edelman, the Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Wajda saw the idea of showing the children being led into the Treblinka gas chambers as unnecessary addition of tearjerking moments.[3][4] Annette Insdorf, a film scholar and strong supporter of Wajda, considers Korczak to be a masterpiece alongside Wajda's own Ashes and Diamonds, in her commentary of Criterion Collection's DVD release of Wajda's War Trilogy.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Korczak". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. ^ "Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Korczak"".
  4. ^ Ewa Mazierska (15 June 2007). Adapt to Survive and Express Oneself (Google books preview). I.B.Tauris. pp. 157–158. ISBN 9781845112974. Retrieved 16 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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