without passion...

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2002)

Very simple form, very serious and important subject - how to estimate? Second world war, ghettos, Judes extermination are well known topic for Poles and rather unknown for the others, unfortunately... People from European countries, from USA etc. can see the cruelty of war time that Polish people already know. But the form is almost academic and this is why I have some remarks. First of all: Brody is too young and his play is without feelings, we can feel a big distance between the film director and the film matter (Polanski was a ghetto prisoner!), there is no passion in this movie - like it was in Spielberg's "Schindler List". I can't just say: "good film" or "bad film", but I should say: "very realistic".