Adam Bauman

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.

Nina's Journey is a feature film, but with an authentic narrator. We follow Nina and her family during six dramatic years, half of them spent in the Warsaw ghetto. The film tells the story of a young girl coming of age under extreme circumstances: Nina falls in love, goes to parties, and graduates high school - all in the Warsaw ghetto. One could say that, in these horrid times, she is almost living the life of a normal teenager. If it wasn't for the fact that all those around her are vanishing, one by one. Nina's Journey is shot in Warsaw, with Polish actors. But it is narrated by the elderly Nina Einhorn herself.

1939년 폴란드 바르샤바, 유명한 유대계 피아니스트 블라디슬로프 스필만은 한 인기 라디오 프로그램에서 쇼팽의 야상곡을 연주하다 폭격을 당한다. 이후 유태인인 스필만과 가족들은 게토에서 생활하지만, 결국 수용소로 향하는 기차에 몸을 싣게 된다. 가족들을 죽음으로 내보내고 간신히 목숨을 구한 스필만은 허기와 추위, 고독과 공포 속에서 마지막까지 생존해 나간다. 자신을 도와주던 몇몇의 사람마저 떠나고, 자신만의 은신처에서 끈질기게 생존을 유지하는 스필만. 어둠과 추위로 가득한 폐건물 속에서 은신생활 중 스필만은 우연찮게 순찰을 돌던 독일 장교에게 발각되는데...

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.