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1990 Polish film

Korczak
Original Polish release poster
Directed by	Andrzej Wajda
Written by	Agnieszka Holland
Produced by	Janusz Morgenstern Willi Segler Daniel Toscan du Plantier Regina Ziegler
Starring	Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Dałkowska Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska Marzena Trybala Piotr Kozlowski Zbigniew Zamachowski Jan Peszek
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Edited by	Ewa Smal
Music by	Wojciech Kilar
Production companies	British Broadcasting Corporation Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Distributed by	New 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
Countries	Poland Germany United Kingdom
Language	Polish

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.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. 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.

Reception

Among the strongest defenders 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. 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.

Cast

Wojciech Pszoniak - Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
Ewa Dałkowska - Stefania 'Stefa' Wilczynska
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska - Maryna Falska
Marzena Trybała - Estera
Piotr Kozłowski - Heniek
Zbigniew Zamachowski - Ichak Szulc
Jan Peszek - Max Bauer
Aleksander Bardini - Adam Czerniaków
Maria Chwalibóg - Czerniaków's wife
Andrzej Kopiczyński - director at Polish Radio
Krystyna Zachwatowicz - Szloma's mother
Zbigniew Suszyński - student
Jerzy Zass - German watchman on the bridge
Wojciech Klata - Szloma
Michał Staszczak - Józek
Agnieszka Krukówna - Ewka (as Agnieszka Kruk)
Anna Mucha - Sabinka

References

"Festival de Cannes: Korczak". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
"Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Korczak"".
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)

External links

Korczak at IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Andrzej Wajda
Filmography
Films directed	A Generation (1955) Towards the Sun (1955) Kanał (1957) Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Lotna (1959) Innocent Sorcerers (1960) Samson (1961) Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Love at Twenty (1962) The Ashes (1965) Gates to Paradise (1968) Przekładaniec (1968) Everything for Sale (1969) Hunting Flies (1969) The Birch Wood (1970) Landscape After the Battle (1970) Pilate and Others (1972) The Wedding (1972) The Promised Land (1975) The Shadow Line (1976) Man of Marble (1977) Without Anesthesia (1978) The Maids of Wilko (1979) The Orchestra Conductor (1980) Man of Iron (1981) Danton (1983) A Love in Germany (1983) A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986) The Possessed (1988) Korczak (1990) The Crowned-Eagle Ring (1993) Nastasja (1994) Holy Week (1995) Miss Nobody (1996) Sir Thaddeus (1999) The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos (2000) The Revenge (2002) Katyń (2007) Sweet Rush (2009) Walesa: Man of Hope (2013) Afterimage (2016)
Companies	Zespół Filmowy "X" Film New Europe Association

v t e Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1963–1975	Knife in the Water (1963) Passenger (1964) Pharaoh (1966) Matthew's Days (1968) Everything for Sale (1969) The Taste of Black Earth (1970) Family Life (1971) Pearl in the Crown (1972) Copernicus (1973) The Deluge (1974) The Promised Land (1975)
1976–2000	Nights and Days (1976) Camouflage (1977) Death of a President (1978) The Maids of Wilko (1979) Olympics 40 (1980) Man of Iron (1981) Yesterday (1985) Axiliad (1986) Hero of the Year (1987) A Short Film About Love (1988) Kornblumenblau (1989) Korczak (1990) The Double Life of Véronique (1991) All That Really Matters (1992) Squadron (1993) Three Colours: White (1994) Crows (1995) At Full Gallop (1996) Love Stories (1997) Pan Tadeusz (1999) Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
2001–present	Quo Vadis (2001) Edi (2002) Pornografia (2003) The Welts (2004) The Collector (2005) Retrieval (2006) Katyń (2007) Tricks (2008) Reverse (2009) All That I Love (2010) In Darkness (2011) 80 Million (2012) Walesa: Man of Hope (2013) Ida (2014) 11 Minutes (2015) Afterimage (2016) Spoor (2017) Cold War (2018) Corpus Christi (2019) Never Gonna Snow Again (2020) Leave No Traces (2021) EO (2022) The Peasants (2023) Under the Volcano (2024)

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