Archive 2018

The Accountant of Auschwitz

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POLISH PREMIERE Oskar Gröning, known as the “Accountant of Auschwitz,” was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews. When he took the stand in 2015, at the age of 94, his trial made headlines worldwide. The debate around his prosecution is at the centre of this historic yet contemporary look at justice. As survivors travel […]

17.11, Saturday | 14:00 | POLIN Museum

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her […]

18.11, Sunday | 12:00 | POLIN Museum (Screening room A)

The Driver is Red

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WARSAW PREMIERE Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.   Language: English. Subtitles: Polish. 17.11, SATURDAY, POLIN MUSEUM, 14:00, screened before “ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ” movie

17.11, Saturday | 14:00 | POLIN Museum

The Four Sisters: Baluty

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POLISH PREMIERE Of the hundred ghettos that dotted the Polish countryside, the one in Lodz had existed for the longest. It was ruled with an iron fist by the president of the Jewish council of elders, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, known as “King Chaim” – a man convinced he could save part of the community by […]

18.11, Sunday | 16:30 | POLIN MUSEUM

The Giraffe

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POLISH PREMIERE A little girl from a Jewish family trying to escape to her subconscious from the horrors of the war, but the tough reality breaks through now and then, trying to take away this last source of hope, guarded only by a little toy given once with love. Q&A with filmmakers.  Language: Ukrainian. Subtitles: […]

18.11, Sunday | 16:30 | POLIN Museum

The Interpreter

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WARSAW PREMIERE An 80-year-old translator, Ali Ungár, comes across a book written by a former SS officer recounting his war experiences in Slovakia. Ali realises that one of the chapters may well describe his own parents’ execution. And so, armed with a pistol, he sets off to Vienna to look for the SS man and […]

15.11, Thursday | 20:45 | PRAHA Cinema

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