Just Beyond This Forest
by Jan Lomnicki
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Actor: Hillel Becker, Leonard Andrzejewski, Marek Bargielowski, Stanislaw Andrzej Badenski, Zofia CzerwinskaDirector: Jan Lomnicki
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
Cinematographer: Artur Radzko
Editor: Krystyna G?rnicka
Writer: Anna Stronska
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Polish (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Polart
Movie Reviews of Just Beyond This Forest
Movie Review: A bittersweet story
Summary: 5 Stars
Just Beyond This Forest is a Polish language story that is set during the Nazi occupation of Poland. A middle-aged Polish washerwoman goes into the Warsaw Ghetto to 'visit' her former employer, who is Jewish. However this is no social visit, for the washerwoman is beseeched by her former employer to help take her only daughter out of the ghetto and to the countryside, where presumably she will be kept safe till the end of the war. This is in 1942, and the Nazis are stepping up their actions against the Jewish population, and so the washerwoman agrees, not because she feels a sense of gratitude or pity, but for money, some clothes, and a watch.
The little girl, who is understandably terrified, goes with the Polish lady, and the rest of the story centers around their experiences whilst trying to get to safety. At heart, it is about the relationship that develops between the Polish lady and her young charge - a tenuous relationship that is at first fraught with suspicion and even malice [on the part of the Polish lady] but later turns into something tender, as she comes to care for the little girl.
This is not one of those graphic Holocaust movies that depict the horrors that befell the Jews, but it is quite effective in portraying the sense of fear and desperation, as embodied by the little girl, and how the Nazi occupation changed the social dynamics in Poland, where many Poles who had served in Jewish households as the hired help before the war, were now in a position to decide whether they wanted/wished to help the jews, with varying motives, ranging from true altruism to greed. I would recommend this to those who are interested in movies dealing with the holocaust.
Summary of Just Beyond This Forest
In 1942, an Aryan washerwoman arrives at Warsaw's ghetto. The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over. Realizing she has the upper hand, the maid is rude and overbearing with her former employer. The desperate woman showers her with gifts and money and she agrees to take the child away. They leave by train, but after it's stopped, they are forced to proceed on foot. By this time, the innocent youngster has begun to charm her companion, so when they are stopped by a German patrol, the woman is prepared to risk her life for the child.Art House & International DVD Video
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