Passenger (1963 film)

Passenger
Directed byAndrzej Munk
Witold Lesiewicz
Written byAndrzej Munk
Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka
StarringAleksandra Śląska
CinematographyKrzysztof Winiewicz
Edited byZofia Dwornik
Music byTadeusz Baird
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Passenger (Polish: Pasażerka) is a 1963 Polish feature film directed by Andrzej Munk. When Munk died in a car crash during production, the unfinished film was assembled for release by directors Witold Lesiewicz and Andrzej Brzozowski.[1]

Passenger, using the form of a documentary, dramatizes the memories of a fictional SS officer (played by Aleksandra Śląska) who had served at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The Passenger examines the nature of oppressor and victim within the microcosm of a German extermination camp during the Jewish Holocaust[2]

  1. ^ "Passenger: A film by Andrzej Munk". SecondRunDVD.com. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  2. ^ Niemitz, 2014: “Munk treats the Holocaust from the unusual perspective of one of its perpetrators.”