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Border Street (Polish:Ulica Graniczna) is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký.
Original Release
03/23/1949
US Release
04/25/1950
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska | Mrs. Klara |
Jerzy Leszczyński | Dr. Józef Bialek / Dr. Józef Białek |
Wladyslaw Godik | Grandfather Libermann |
Wladyslaw Walter | Cieplikowski |
Jerzy Pichelski | Kazimierz Wojtan |
Tadeusz Fijewski | Kusmirak's hair stylist / Bronek Cieplikowski |
Józef Munclinger | Kusmirak |
Robert Vrchota | Hans, Gestapo Officer |
Stefan Śródka | Natan Sziuliu |
Eugeniusz Kruk | Fredek Kusmirak |
Directors
Writers
Aleksander Ford, Jan Fethke, Ludwik Starski
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska | Mrs. Klara |
Jerzy Leszczyński | Dr. Józef Bialek / Dr. Józef Białek |
Wladyslaw Godik | Grandfather Libermann |
Wladyslaw Walter | Cieplikowski |
Jerzy Pichelski | Kazimierz Wojtan |
Tadeusz Fijewski | Kusmirak's hair stylist / Bronek Cieplikowski |
Józef Munclinger | Kusmirak |
Robert Vrchota | Hans, Gestapo Officer |
Stefan Śródka | Natan Sziuliu |
Eugeniusz Kruk | Fredek Kusmirak |
Jerzy Złotnicki | David Libermann / David |
Dionizy Ilczenko | Wladek Wojtan |
Maria Broniewska | Jadzia Bialkówna / Jadzia Białkówna |
Justyna Kreczmar | Wanda Kusmirakówna |
Maria Zabczynska | Wojtanowa |
Irena Renardówna | Jewish Woman / Helena |
Janina Lukowska | Estera Libermann |
Halina Raciecka | Jewish Woman |
Gustav Nezval | |
Antonín Holzinger | (as A. Holzinger) |