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

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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