Border Street (1948)
- Original title
- Ulica Graniczna
- Directed by
- Aleksander Ford
- Genre
- drama film, fiction film
- Country
- Czechoslovakia, Poland
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows five families from different social and political backgrounds in Warsaw as they experience the Nazi persecution of Jews. It leads up to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and deliberately avoids a happy ending.
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What happens
Border Street (Polish: Ulica Graniczna) is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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