Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000924 Fiction |
Country / Year |
Poland, 1948 |
Original Title |
Ostatni etap |
Other Title(s) |
Die letzte Etappe (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Film Polski, Warschau |
Staff |
Producer: Wanda Jakubowska; Production manager: Mieczyslaw Wajnberger; Location manager: Wilhelm Holender; Assistent director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Zbigniew Niemczynowski; Script: Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider; Camera: Borys Monastyrsky; Cameraman: Karol Chodura, Andrzej Ancuta; Editing: Róza Pstrokonska; Sound: Jan Radlicz, Leonard Ksiezak; Art direction: Roman Mann, Czeslav Piaskowski; Set decoration: Jan Rybkowski; Music: Roman Palester; Musical direction: Zdzislaw Górczynski |
Cast |
Barbara Drapinska (Marta Weiss); Tatiana Górecka (Eugenia, Ärztin, Häftling); Antonina Górecka (Anna, Krankenschwester, Häftling); Wanda Bartówna (Helena, junger Häftling); Huguette Faget (Michele, französischer Häftling); Mariya Vinogradova (Nadja, Hilfsschwester); Barbara Fijewska (Anielka); Anna Redlichówna (Urszulka, Häftling); Alina Janowska (Dessa, Krankenschwester, Häftling); Zofia Mrozowska (Zigeunerin, Häftling); Stanislaw Zaczyk (Tadek); Stefan Sródka (Bronek); Elzbieta Labunska (Häftling); Jadwiga Chojnacka (Häftling); Ewa Kunina (Häftling); Helena Gluszkówna (Dirigentin des Orchesters); Barbara Rachwalska (Elza, Blockälteste); Roma Rudecka (Kapo); Zofia Niwinska (Laura, Blockwärterin); Halina Drohocka (Lalunia); Aleksandra Slaska (Mandl, Oberaufseherin im Frauenblock); Maria Kaniewska (Drechsel, Rapportführerin); Janina Morrisowna (Aufseherin im Frauenblock); Wladyslaw Brochwicz (Kramer, Kommandant in Auschwitz); Edward Dziewonski (Lagerarzt in Auschwitz); Kazimierz Pawlowski (Chef der Gestapo); Zygmunt Chmielewski (Offizier); Anna Jaraczówna (Frieda, Kapo) |
Length |
120' |
Format |
16mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 28 Mar 1948: Premiere, Lodz |
Further Remarks |
- Länge, DDR: 3044 m / 111'15'' |
Abstract |
Film drama, depicting Auschwitz, in an almost documentary manner, centers around the women's camp and the conditions under which they lived. Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed. Martha, who sees the brutal crimes, the sham of clean-up for the Red Cross, tries to escape under orders from the underground. Captured, she is tortured and dies as Allied planes fly overhead. The two Polish women who wrote and directed this film were themselves prisoners in the Birkenau women's camp at Auschwitz. |
Subject Terms |
Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Deportations; Kapo; Roma (Volk); Selektion; Sinti; Perpetrators; Extermination camps; Resistance |
Holdings |
- Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin: 3044 m / 111'15''; 35mm; OmdtU |
Bibliography |
- Lubinski (Lubinsky), Kurt (als: k.l.): "Auschwitz im Film. 'The Last Stop' - World Theatre", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 15, Nr. 12, 25.03.1949 |