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The Passenger

Pasażerka (1963)

Drama, War | Poland

Director: Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz

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Rating: 7.5/10

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SYNOPSIS

The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life. Her vision is shown and then the actual events.

Actors

Writer: Andrzej Munk, Zofia Posmysz

Narrator: Tadeusz Lomnicki

RUNTIME: 62 min

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