Jeszcze tylko ten las (1991)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Jan Lomnicki

Writer:

Anna Stronska (writer)

Release Date:

4 October 1992 (Poland)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

Set in 1942, film opens with an Aryan washerwoman arrival to the Warsaw's ghetto. The Jewish wife she...

Plot Keywords:

Jewish | Risk | Countryside | Aryan | Warsaw Ghetto

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Ryszarda Hanin	...	Kulgawcowa
Joanna Friedman	...	Rutka / Janina Zofia Jamróz
Marta Klubowicz	...	Jaska Kulgawcowa (as Marta Klubowicz-Rózycka)
Marzena Trybala	...	Rutka's Mother
Marek Bargielowski	...	Traitor from the Train
Boguslaw Sochnacki	...	German Soldier Hans
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Leonard Andrzejewski	...	Man on the Train
Stanislaw Andrzej Badenski
Hillel Becker
Zofia Czerwinska	...	Woman on the Train
Jan Jurewicz	...	Man from the Train Rescuing Kulgawcowa
Maria Korzeniowska
Hanna Kossowska
Jan Pyjor	...	Stockings Seller
Stefania Staszewska
Janusz Sykutera	...	German Soldier
Etl Szyc
Janusz Szymanski
Tomasz Taraszkiewicz

Also Known As:

Just Beyond That Forest
Still Only This Forest

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

Poland

Language:

Polish

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

District Court, Al. Solidarnosci, Warsaw, Poland

Company:

Zespól Filmowy "Kadr"

Great Movie

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

It is very hard to get movies like this in Mexico, but I was lucky and caught it on TV. At the beginning it looked like a typical war movie, and I was not very sure of keep on watching it, however, I did, and I am glad I did, and it is because it is not a typical war movie. The story is around an old catholic woman that will try to hide a little Jewish girl in the Poland of the 2th World War, when it was death penalty to hide any Jewish people. They travel to the country to avoid any kind of contact with German soldiers, and to get it they have to take a train and be with lots of people Thar are checking to the others to see if they find any Jewish people. The story is very well treated, and specially in the old woman, you can see all kind of human (very human)reactions after being in the middle of the war, from the total happiness to the total anger. The end though is very sad is completely unexpected.