Last Stage, The

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FINA-l Film Restorations

Cinematographer: Borys Monastyrski

Director: Wanda Jakubowska

Writer: Gerda Schneider, Wanda Jakubowska

Production designer: Czesław Piaskowski, Roman Mann

Editor: Róża Pstrokońska

Cast: Alina Janowska, Huguette Faget, Staniwsław Zaczyk, Tatjana Górecka, Wanda Bartówna

Production Company: Przedsiębiorstwo Państwowe Film Polski

Year: 1947

Country: Poland

Time: 104

Date and place:

2020.11.20, 15:00virtual Cinema City - Screening Room No. 11

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Hidden gem! Carefully restored, 4K digital version of one of the most important Polish films after World War II. „The Last Stage” by Wanda Jakubowska is the world’s first feature film about the German Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The protagonists are prisoners of the camp and include Jakubowska as well as German anti-fascist Gerda Schneider, who wrote the script together with the director. Shot on location in the actual camp, this film leaves a lasting impression. It was distributed in 50 countries and won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe at the International Film Festival in Mariánské Lázně (1948). Cinematography by Boris Monastyrski, born in today’s Ukraine, brings „The Last Stage” closer to Italian neorealism.

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