Ambulance backdrop
Ambulance poster
Trailer
Ambulance
6.0
|
0h 11m
|
1961
|
Released
Overview
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

Cast
Zbigniew Józefowicz poster
Zbigniew Józefowicz
SS-man (uncredited)
Leopold Rene Nowak poster
Leopold Rene Nowak
Driver (uncredited)
Marek Sniatkiewicz poster
Marek Sniatkiewicz
Boy (uncredited)
Bogusław Sochnacki poster
Bogusław Sochnacki
Watchman (uncredited)

Recommendations