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Korczak (Original title)Docteur Korczak (Alternative title)Dr. Korczak (Alternative title)
Date: 26 October 1990 (Release)

Countries: Poland, Federal Republic of Germany, France, United Kingdom

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Synopsis: Based on the life of Jewish Doctor Henryk Goldszmit. A man of very high principle, who is unafraid of shouting at German soldiers, and who set up an orphanage set up in a cramped school after the Nazis created the Warsaw ghetto in 1940, and provided asylum to 200 homeless children...

Genres:
Biopic, War

Subjects:
Holocaust, World War II, Warsaw, Children

Series title:

TV Transmissions
Date: 03 February 1991Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:50Slot duration: 110 minsNetwork - Language: Polish - Black and White - Sound

Credits (42)
Production Company: ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Production Company: Zespol Filmowy "Perspektywa", Production Company: Erato Films, Production Company: Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Production Company: Telmar Film International, Production Company: BBC Films, Executive Producer: Lew Rywin, Executive Producer: Wolfgang Hantke, Producer: Janusz Morgenstern, Producer: Daniel Toscan Du Plantier, Producer: Regina Ziegler, Production Manager: Barbara Pec-Slesicka, Production Assistant: Krystyna Grochowicz, Production Assistant: Ryszard Wierkowski, Assistant Director: Andrzej Kotkowski, Assistant Director: Andrzej Wdowicki, Assistant Director: Ami Drozd, Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland, Director of Photography: Robby Müller, Pyrotechnics: Jacek Jelinski, Editor: Ewa Smal, Production Designer: Allan Starski, Set Decorator: Anna Kowarska, Set Decorator: Magdalena Dipont, Costume Designer: Malgorzata Stefaniak, Uniforms: Jan Rutkiewicz, Costume Designer: Wieslawa Starska, Make-up: Ewa Symko-Marczewska, Make-up: Jolanta Puszynska, Music: Wojciech Kilar, Jewish Song Performed by: Nina Gajewska, Music Performed by: Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego, Orchestra Conductor: Antoni Wit, Jewish Song Arranged by: Wojciech Kaleta, Music Consultant: Malgorzata Krupa, Sound Recording: Janusz Rosól, Sound Effects: Bogdan Nowak, Stunts: Janusz Chlebowski, Stunts: Józef Stefanski, Stunts: Robert Brzezinski, Stunts: Ryszard Janikowski
Cast (52)
Wojciech Pszoniak (Dr Janusz Korczak), Ewa Dalkowska (Stefania Wilczynska), Piotr Kozlowski (Heniek), Marzena Trybala (Estera), Adam Siemion (Abramek), Karolina Czernicka (Natka), Agnieszka Kruk (Ewka), Aleksander Bardini (Czerniakov), Robert Atzorn (German doctor), Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jan Peszek, Marek Bargielowski, Maria Chwalibóg, Andrzej Kopiczynski, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Jerzy Zass, Wojciech Klata (Szloma), Michal Staszczak, Maria Weymayr, Anna Mucha, Wojciech Radecki, Janusz Bukowski, Stanislawa Celinska, Edgar Hoppe, Bernhard Howe, Ewa Isajewicz-Telega, Piotr Kazimierski, Grzegorz Klein, Zygmunt Kestowicz, Agnieszka Kumor, Olaf Lubaszenko, Katarzyna Laniewska, Alicja Migulanka, Wlodzimierz Press, Jan Prochyra, Danuta Szaflarska, Aniela Swiderska-Pawlik, Zbigniew Suszynski, Tomasz Traczynski, Jan Walczak, Maciej Winkler, Jacek Wojcicki, W. Bielinski, Stanislaw Brudny, Jacek Domanski, T. Hanusek, Hanna Kossowska, G. Bawlowski, Teresa Szmigielówna, A. Trabczynski, R. Walentynowicz