Film Forum

Poland, 1961
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Starring Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elżbieta Kępińska
Approx. 115 min.

Wajda’s most terrifying portrait of a desperate man at bay, as Jakub Gold, in loose parallel to the biblical character, journeys from prison after pre-war anti-Semitic riots, through hiding places during the Occupation, to fulfillment in the Resistance. Wajda’s first Scope film.

Presented with support from The Ashes and Diamonds Fund for Eastern European Film, The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film, and The Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films, donated by Leon Constantiner and Family

Reviews

“Wajda’s concern with the tragic nature of human destiny, with the straits into which it is driven, is given a new dimension.”
– Michałek Bolesław, The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda