A masterpiece of Polish cinema, a tragedy about the Warsaw ghetto involving an old tailor who tries to save his daughters and others. The film culminates with the Warsaw uprising of 1943, when Jews, with the support of the Polish underground, take up arms and die fighting. With passages of visual brilliance. In Polish with English subtitles.

Aleksander Ford---Poland---1948---101 mins.

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  Release Date: 09/23/2008