Movie Details
Original Language:Polish
Production Companies:SeMaFor
Ambulance
Audience Score
11 minDrama
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 groups death chamber Morgensterns 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 childrens teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak 18791942 a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka
