Directed by:
Andrzej WajdaScreenplay:
Agnieszka HollandCinematography:
Robby MüllerComposer:
Wojciech KilarCast:
Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Marzena Trybala, Piotr Kozłowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jan Peszek, Aleksander Bardini (more)Plots(1)
It's Poland in the 1930s and Henryk Goldszmit is a Polish icon due to his writings, teachings, and radio programs for children, under the name of Janusz Korczak. With anti-Semitism on the rise, Korczak's radio show is stopped – but he remains defiantly optimistic. After the Nazis invade Poland, the Jewish Korczak and his orphans are moved into the newly formed Ghetto, where he scrounges for food and tries to protect the children from the violence and hunger around them. He refuses offers of favorable treatment or escape in order to remain with the children. When the orphanage is deported to Treblinka, he refuses final offers to escape and accompanies them to their deaths in the gas chambers. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Wojciech Pszoniak
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
The Promised Land (1974)
Black Thursday (2011)
Ewa Dalkowska
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Bez znieczulenia (1978)
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Three Colours: White (1994)
Faustyna (1994)
Marzena Trybala
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Blind Chance (1981)
Three Colours: White (1994)
Piotr Kozłowski
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
The Last Schoolbell (1989)
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Korczak (1990)
Jan Peszek
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
The Welts (2004)
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Aleksander Bardini
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Three Colours: White (1994)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Wojciech Klata
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Korczak (1990)
Boys Don't Cry (2000)
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Man of Marble (1977)
Man of Iron (1981)
Jerzy Zass
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Interrogation (1982)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Michał Staszczak
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
I Never Cry (2020)
Inspekcja (2018) (TV movie)
Agnieszka Krukówna
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
25 Years of Innocence (2020)
Korczak (1990)
Karolina Czernicka
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Maria Weymayr
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Anna Mucha
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Korczak (1990)
Boys Don't Cry (2000)
Adam Siemion
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Korczak (1990)
Popiełuszko. Wolność jest w nas (2009)
Marek Bargielowski
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
A Room with a View on the Sea (1977)
Maria Chwalibóg
Poland
Best movies:
A Lonely Woman (1981)
Korczak (1990)
Carte Blanche (2015)
Andrzej Kopiczyński
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Znachor (1981)
Real End of the Great War (1957)