Synopsis
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived–and died–through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Alan AdelsonDirector
- Alan AdelsonWriter
- Kate TavernaDirector
Cast
- Jerzy KosińskiMordechai Chaim Rumkowski
- Theodore Bikel(voice)
- Julie Cohen(voice)
- Barbara Rosenblat(voice)
- Nicholas Kepros(voice)
- David Warrilow(voice)
- Lynn Cohen(voice)
- Frederick Neumann(voice)
- Jerry Matz(voice)
- Gregory Gordon(voice)
- Eva Wellisz(voice)
- Sam Tsoutsouvas(voice)
Themes
lodzjewish ghettoholocaust (shoah)world war iinsdap (nazi party)polish historygerman occupation of polandharrowing