The Third Part of the Night

The Third Part of the Night

102 mins | Drama | Dec. 17, 1971

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

The Third Part of the Night

102 mins | Drama | Dec. 17, 1971

The Third Part of the Night
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers
Original title Trzecia część nocy
Directors Andrzej Żuławski
Writers Miroslaw Zulawski, Andrzej Żuławski

Cast

Jan Nowicki

as Jan

Anna Milewska

as Sister Klara

Michal Grudzinski

as Marian

Marek Walczewski

as Rozenkranc

Alicja Jachiewicz

as The Waitress

Jerzy Golinski

as Michal's father