Warsaw: A City Divided

Warsaw: A City Divided

71 mins | Documentary, History | May 11, 2019

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.

Warsaw: A City Divided

71 mins | Documentary, History | May 11, 2019

Warsaw: A City Divided
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Producers TVP, PISF, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Pado Studio Film, MFF
Original title Warszawa: miasto podzielone
Directors Eric Bednarski
Writers Eric Bednarski

Cast

Krystyna Budnicka

as Self - Ghetto Inhabitant

Zygmunt Walkowski

as Self - Photographer

Józef Hen

as Self - Writer

Irena Agata Bołdok

as Self - Ghetto Inhabitant

Niels Gutschow

as Self - Architecture Historian

Aleksandra Polisiewicz

as Self - Artist

Michael Schudrich

as Self - Chief Rabbi of Poland

Eleonora Bergman

as Self - Architecture Historian

Jakub Szczęsny

as Self - Architect

Beata Chomątowska

as Self - Writer

Adam Bauman

as Self - Quote Reader (voice)

Justyna Gardzińska

as Self - Quote Reader (voice)

Jarosław Łukomski

as Self - Quote Reader (voice)

Israel Gutman

as Self - Historian (archive footage)