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Passenger (Polish: Pasażerka) is an unfinished 1963 Polish film directed by Andrzej Munk, which Witold Lesiewicz assembled for release. Passenger, using the form of a documentary, relates the experiences of one female SS officer (Slaska) at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II and her relationship with an inmate, Marta (Ciepielewska), whose life she manages to save on occasion. Munk died in a car accident while the film was in production and the completed scenes were combined from parts of original footage and screenplay sketches by Witold Lesiewicz. The methods used are explained in a voiceover during the course of the film, so its unfinished state itself takes a documentary form. Parts of the film were shot at Auschwitz. The source was a radio drama Passenger from Cabin Number 45, written by Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka in 1959. Posmysz's play was later reworked into a novel. It was published in 1962 as Pasażerka.
Original Release
09/20/1963
US Release
05/18/1970
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandra Slaska | Liza |
Anna Ciepielewska | Marta |
Jan Kreczmar | Walter |
Marek Walczewski | Tadeusz |
Irena Malkiewicz | Oberaufseherin Madel |
Barbara Horawianka | Nurse |
Maria Koscialkowska | Guard Inga Weniger |
Anna Jaraczówna | Capo |
Leon Pietraszkiewicz | Lagerkommandant Grabner |
Janusz Bylczynski | Capo |
Directors
Witold Lesiewicz, Andrzej Munk
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandra Slaska | Liza |
Anna Ciepielewska | Marta |
Jan Kreczmar | Walter |
Marek Walczewski | Tadeusz |
Irena Malkiewicz | Oberaufseherin Madel |
Barbara Horawianka | Nurse |
Maria Koscialkowska | Guard Inga Weniger |
Anna Jaraczówna | Capo |
Leon Pietraszkiewicz | Lagerkommandant Grabner |
Janusz Bylczynski | Capo |
Andrzej Krasicki | Commission Member |
Zdzislaw Szymborski | SS-Man |
Kazimierz Rudzki | Commission Member |
Anna Golebiowska | Female Prisoner |
Krzesislawa Dubielówna | |
Izabella Olszewska | |
Wanda Swaryczewska | |
Barbara Walkówna | Capo |
Elzbieta Czyzewska | Female Prisoner |
Tadeusz Lomnicki | Narrator |