Border Street
by Aleksander Ford
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Actor: Jerzy Leszczynski, Jerzy Pichelski, Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Wladyslaw Godik, Wladyslaw WalterDirector: Aleksander Ford
Brand: MPI
Cinematographer: Jaroslav Tuzar
Writer: Aleksander Ford
Editor: Jirina Lukesová
Writer: Jan Fethke
Writer: Ludwik Starski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language); Polish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: DV89100
Studio: Polart
Product features:
- One of the first post-World War II films to deal with the Holocaust, BORDER STREET recreates the circumstances surrounding the doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which a small, heroic band of Jews chose to resist the Nazis rather than face deportation to Auschwitz or Treblinka. The story unfolds through the eyes of four characters who live in the same building: David and Jadzia are two Jewish youth
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Movie Review: A Holocaust Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
"Border Street" (in Polish "Ulica graniczna") was produced in 1949, which makes it the 2nd or third Holocaust movie, following its compatriot "The Last Stage" ("Ostatni etap"), filmed in Auschwitz (!) and perhaps the Czechoslovak "Distant Journey" of the same year. "Border Street" was directed by one of Poland leading directors, Aleksander Ford, himself a Jew, and tells the story of the Warsaw ghetto from the day it was opened until the end of the ghetto uprising. Ford portrays 4 very clear types: the anti-Semitic Pole (which is quite astonishing keeping in mind the movie was produced in Poland in the 40s), the Pole who feels solidarity with his Jewish brothers and tries to help as much as possible, the conservative Jew and the assimilated Jew(ess) who is totally unaware of her Jewish origins until the war begins.
The film, though occasionally old in its cinematographic language, is very effective and a true masterpiece - a Holocaust film made before the term "Holocaust movies" was coined. Because all movie studios in Poland were ruined during the war, Ford shot this film at the Barrandov studios in Prague with the complicity of Czech actors in minor roles.
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