Border Street (1948)
"Ulica Graniczna" (original title)

Director:

Aleksander Ford

Writers:

Jan Fethke, Aleksander Ford,

Stars:

Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Wladyslaw Godik

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska	...	Mrs. Klara
Jerzy Leszczynski	...	Dr. Józef Bialek
Wladyslaw Godik	...	Grandfather Libermann
Wladyslaw Walter	...	Cieplikowski
Jerzy Pichelski	...	Kazimierz Wojtan
Tadeusz Fijewski	...	Bronek Cieplikowski / Kusmirak's hair stylist
Józef Munclinger	...	Kusmirak
Robert Vrchota	...	Hans, Gestapo Officer
Stefan Sródka	...	Natan Sziuliu
Eugeniusz Kruk	...	Fredek Kusmirak (as E. Kruk)
Jerzy Zlotnicki	...	David Libermann (as Jurek Zlotnicki)
Dionizy Ilczenko	...	Wladek Wojtan (as D. Ilczenko)
Maria Broniewska	...	Jadzia Bialkówna
Justyna Kreczmar	...	Wanda Kusmirakówna (as J. Karpinska)
Maria Zabczynska	...	Wojtanowa

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

master racism | children | friendship | parentless child | nazi occupation | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Poland

Language:

Polish German

Release Date:

25 April 1950 (USA)

Also Known As:

Border Street

Filming Locations:

Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland

Company Credits

Production Co:

P.P. Film Polski

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (archive footage) Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was banned in Poland as it depicted Jews, rather than communists, as the heroes of anti-German struggle.

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Connections

Featured in The Lesson of Polish Cinema (2002)

User Reviews

A realistic recreation of the doomed Warsaw Ghetto Upring

Directed by Alexander Ford `Ulica Granicza' (Border Street) is a recreation of the doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising in which a small but heroic band of Jews, herded into a ghetto by German occupation forces, chose to resist the Nazis rather than to face deportation to Auschwitz or Treblinka.

`Ulica Granicza' was a prize winner at the 1948 Venice Film Festival.