Ambulance

Release Date: 1961-01-01

Overview: In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Zbigniew Józefowicz

as SS-man (uncredited)

Leopold Rene Nowak

as Driver (uncredited)

Marek Sniatkiewicz

as Boy (uncredited)

Bogusław Sochnacki

as Watchman (uncredited)