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Synopsis: Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an evocative memoir of his role in the rebellion that held back the Nazis for almost a month in 1943. The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. An overhead tracking shot shows the number of people assembled in the first months of the relocation. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed, and the rudiments of resistance are planned by a handful of the young, including Edelman. Following some sporadic
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Jon Avnet
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
UNRATED
Year:
2001
177 min
294 Views


Can you help me get across?

I could...

...but then I could cause myself

a lot of trouble.

This is the money

from Captain Szerynski's men.

-This is all you received?

-Yes.

Have you counted it twice?

No. Three times.

-They're short.

-I know.

-They're 80,000 zlotys short.

-I know!

It's already 4:
00.

Why didn't Szerynski call?

He said he's doing his best.

Get me Rabbi Lebowicz.

Come, Rabbi. Please.

Excuse me for being so bold, sir,

but a rabbi should not go...

...into an establishment

of such ill repute.

Mr. Asher, in the Jewish faith,

it is customary that we demonstrate...

...our love of God

through our good deeds.

It is true.

And in this manner, God is able to

bestow his great blessings upon us.

This is also true.

I believe today,

you have a special opportunity...

...to demonstrate your love of God...

...should you wish to do so,

preferably before 6:00 p.m.

Mr. Czerniakow...

...I wish to thank you for affording me...

...this special opportunity

to receive God's blessing.

Should you ever bring a rabbi

in my club again...

...if you pull a stunt like this again,

I will kill you.

Make no mistake about that.

Commissar Auerswald! Commissar--

Commissar Auerswald is not here.

He must be.

He's handling the Pawiak hostages.

There's a deadline: 6:00.

Commissar Auerswald was called to Berlin

for important meetings.

Then who's in charge?

Please, do not stand so close to my desk.

-Who is in charge?

-I'm asking you.

Who is in charge?

I'm here to pay the full fine.

There is a deadline.

I know nothing about this situation.

The Commissar

left no instructions about this.

Someone must know.

Who is handling this?

Step back from the desk!

I do not wish your diseases.

This is the payment. Call Pawiak prison.

-Tell them the payment has been delivered.

-Did you say Pawiak?

Pawiak prison. Yes.

Twenty-three hostages.

I saw a notice on Pawiak.

Yeah, here it is.

"On the authority

of the Commissar's office...

"...23 prisoners were executed

at 10:
00 this morning...

"...for crimes against the Polish people."

No.

These were not crimes.

There were no crimes.

These were innocent people.

There were children.

You are with child.

Did you know there were children?

I know nothing about this situation.

If you wish to discuss this

with the Commissar...

...he will return next Tuesday.

You are with child.

Have you no connection?

I have answered your questions.

You are free to go now.

This morning, at 10:00, the 23 hostages...

...were executed

by order of the Commissar's office.

I am very sorry.

So you still don't want to tell me

who your comrades are?

Maybe I can be more convincing.

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Paul Brickman

Paul Brickman (born April 23, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for the film Risky Business, which he wrote and directed. more…

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