PL

2005

51 min

Finished

The Last Witness

Ostatni swiadek

Directing: Michal Nekanda-Trepka

Synopsis

Samule Willenberg returns to his home country of Poland to tell of his experiences in 1942, where he was deported to the death camp Treblinka. He was assigned to the task of sorting trhough the belongings of those who had been gassed and incinerated. "The Last Witness" is a gripping and deeply personal account of cruelty that knew no boundaries, but it is also a homage to those who dared to defy superior force. In the history of the German concentration camps there were 3 armed rebellions which tried to break the process of extermination in these places. In the film about the S.Willenberg`s lot the rebellion at the concentration camp constitutes the contests of one scene only. the actions is held in the reality of contemporary Poland and Israel where the hero of the film lives.