Ambulance

Ambulance — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 1961
• Runtime
• 11 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Janusz Morgenstern

Ambulance — Cast

Zbigniew Józefowicz SS-man (uncredited) Leopold Rene Nowak Driver (uncredited)

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Marek Sniatkiewicz Boy (uncredited) Bogusław Sochnacki Watchman (uncredited)