Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematographie des Holocaust


Mir kumen on / Droga Mlodych. R: Ford [PL, 1936]

ID

FBW002959      Dokumentarfilm

Land / Jahr

Polen, 1936

Originaltitel

Mir kumen on / Droga Mlodych

Andere Titel

Der Weg der Jungen (deutscher Titel)
Children Must Laugh / Here We Are / Here We Come / We're on Our Way / Nous arrivons

Regie

Aleksander Ford

Produktion

Vladimir Medem Sanatorium; für Jüdischer Arbeiter Bund

Prod. / Stab

Drehbuch: Wanda Wasilewska, Jozef Pat; Kamera: Stanislaw Lipinski; Musik: I. Trupjanski, Henoch Kon; Sprecher: A.L. Aleksander, Grey Blake (engl. Version), Derrick de Marney (engl. Version)

Länge

63'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Zeitangaben

- 25.03.1938: Erstaufführung, USA, New York, NY (Continental)

Anmerkungen

1. Der Film wurde in Polen von der Zensur nicht für das Kino freigegeben.

Schlagworte

1930-1939; Fundraising; Jiddisches Kino; Vladimir Medem Sanitarium; Warschau

Kopien

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem; 35mm; jidd. Version
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 625,3 m / 57'; 16mm
- National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA: 63'; 16mm; jidd. Version

Literatur

- Kitai, Michal: "Vegn Klangfilm 'Mir Kumen On'", in: Literarische Bleter (Warschau), 15.05.1936
- N.N.: "Ein jiddischer Film", in: Pariser Tageszeitung, Jg. 1, Nr. 155, 13.11.1936
- Smith, Harry T. (als: H.T.S.): "At the Continental Theatre", in: The New York Times, 26.03.1938
- Kantorovitsh Gilinsky, Lyuba: "Der Film 'Mir Kumen On'", Medem Sanatorye Buch, Kazdan, Kh. Sh. (Ed.), Tel Aviv: Menorah Press, 1971
- Toeplitz, Jerzy: Geschichte des Films. 1934-1939, Bd. 3, München: Rogner & Bernhard, 1980
- Armatys, / Armatys, Leszek / Stradomski, Wieslaw: Historia Filmu Polskiego. 1930-1939. Vol. 1, Warschau: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1988
- Janicki, Stanislaw: Polskie Filmy Fabularne 1902-1988. Warschau: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1990
- Gross, Natan: Toledot ha'kolnoa ha'jehudit be'polin 1910-1950 / The Jewish Film in Poland 1910-1950. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1990
- Hoberman, J.: Bridge of Light. Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. New York, NY: Schocken, 1991
- Konigsberg, Ira: "Our Children and the Limits of Cinema", in: Film Quarterly (Berkeley, CA), Herbst 1998

Inhalt (detailliert)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 Title and dedication
- 037 Title and credits
- 086 Jewish quarter in Polish town, the dirt, the miserable life, faces of Jews followed by sequence showing bad economic situation, life of a poor Jewish family, children playing in the dirty yard
- Children and adults peddling in the streets, children coughing, a child recites lines in yiddish, a poem in a classroom, a lesson is in progress, they sing a song in praise of the Jewish school
- 383 GV: The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium, laughing child, a lesson is interrupted as new children arrive, their first meal, one of the children (Zalman) puts bread in his pockets
- 528 The new arrivals make a tour of the sanatorium a presentation of the small zoo, a biology laboratory, the showers, the dorms
- 623 Morning, wakening, washing, cleaning, breakfast, a girl reads the sanatorium news bulletin of the day, medical examination, morning activities
- 904 Various games, one of the newcomers joins in volleyball, the other tries to steal a chicken
- 1007 A soap battle in the bathroom
- 1028 Caption: The sanatorium has a children's council which operates in a democratic fashion, diagrams and drawings illustrate it, meeting of various committees
- 1094 Two boys cleaning the bathroom
- 1114 Activities during free time
- 1179 The children perform a song outside in the field
- 1214 The children put on a play
- 1354 The children cultivate their own farm, a ceremony at the end of harvest, the children act, play, sing
- 1756 The children's council meets
- 1850 Shots of miner towns and the work in the mines
- 1882 Miner's children are greeted at the sanatorium
- 1936 The names of the children are called
- 1942 Noiach, a leader of the Jewish labour movement in Poland and head of the sanatorium speaks
- 1987 Farewell song of the children
- 2051 End
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem