ID

FBW001491      Fiction

Country / Year

Poland, 1963-1964

Original Title

Koniec Naszego Swiata

Other Title(s)

Das Ende unserer Welt (German)
The End of Our World

Directed by

Wanda Jakubowska

Produced by

Film Polski (Grupa "Start"), Warschau

Staff

Producer: Stanislaw Adler; Script: Wanda Jakubowska; Based on: Tadeusz Holuj (gleichn. Roman); Camera: Kazimierz Wawrzyniak; Art direction: Boleslaw Kamykowski; Music: Kazimierz Serocki

Cast

Lech Skolimowski (Henryk); Teresa Wicinska (Maryjka); Wladyslaw Glabik (Wiktor); Tadeusz Holuj (Adam); Krystyn Wójcik (Samek); Tadeusz Madeja (Bolek); Adam Fornal (Karol); Tadeusz Teodorczyk (Major); Edward Kusztal (Czarny); Andrzej Kopiczynski (Blutiger Józek); Jerzy Nowak (Blockfuhrer); Jerzy Binczycki (Häftling in Auschwitz); Piotr Augustyniak (SS Arzt Wirth); Elzbieta Starostecka (Julia); Ferdynand Matysik (Rudolf)

Length

4225 m / 154'25''

Format

35mm/sw/1:2,35 (Cinemascope)

Dates

- 25 Sep 1964: Release date, GDR

Further Remarks

- Studioaufnahmen: Filmstudio Lódz

Subject Terms

Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Photographs; Memorials; Survivors of the Holocaust; Kapo; Roma (Volk); Selektion; Sinti; Special units (Prisoners); Resistance

Holdings

- Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin; 35mm; Dt. Synchronfassung

Bibliography

- Loewy, Hanno: "The Mother of all Holocaust Films. Wanda Jakubowska's Auschwitz Trilogy", in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 24, Nr. 2, Juni, 01.06.2004