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You Are Free, Dr. Korczak

04/09/1975

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1hr 39min

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Drama

STORY

Based on the biography of the Polish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak, the film retells the last phase of his life. Korczak, director of the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and a Jew himself, was forced to move to the ghetto with all the orphans living in the home in 1940 following the occupation of Poland by the Nazis. Despite the terrible conditions within the walls, Korczak continued to care devotedly for "his" children. He even managed to save cases that had been written off as hopeless. However, when Korczak's orphans were also to be deported to the Treblinka extermination camp as part of the "Final Solution" and the resulting evacuation of the ghetto, he insisted on going with them. Fully aware that he would no longer be able to help his protégés, he let the children believe that he was taking them on a trip to the countryside to alleviate their fears.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Leo Genn
  • Carlos Werner
  • Volker Brandt
  • Albert Bessler
  • Eva Lissa

    Director

  • Aleksander Ford

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Poland

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • Polish

Cast

Leo Genn

Dr. Janusz Korczak

Carlos Werner

Newerly

Volker Brandt

Bettler

Albert Bessler

Stanislav

Eva Lissa

Madame

Benjamin Völz

Michael

Orna Porat

Stefania Wilczynska