| | |  | POLAND | Home » » Border Street | | | | | | | Description: | | One of the first post-World War II films to deal with the Holocaust, BORDER STREET recreates the circumstances surrounding the doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which a small, heroic band of Jews chose to resist the Nazis rather than face deportation to Auschwitz or Treblinka. The story unfolds through the eyes of four characters who live in the same building: David and Jadzia are two Jewish youths who fight the Nazis as their only choice for survival, while gentiles Bronek and Wladek consider the occupation an insult to their Polish heritage. Aleksander Ford's heart-wrenching film focuses on the common goals of the Poles and Jews as they stage a valiant effort to rid themselves of the Nazi menace. BORDER STREET is at once a compelling drama and a page out of history. | | | Features: | |
• One of the first post-World War II films to deal with the Holocaust, BORDER STREET recreates the circumstances surrounding the doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which a small, heroic band of Jews chose to resist the Nazis rather than face deportation to Auschwitz or Treblinka. The story unfolds through the eyes of four characters who live in the same building: David and Jadzia are two Jewish youth
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Wladyslaw Godik, Wladyslaw Walter, Jerzy Pichelski | | Director:
| Aleksander Ford | | Format:
| Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| German, Polish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Polart | | Run Time:
| 110 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 27, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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 Border StreetNov 30, 2008
By Richard A. Gair
"Professor of Holocaust Literature"
For anyone who is a serious student of how the Holocaust is depicted in the media this is a must to see. It strips away a lot of the commercialism we see in movies and tells the basic story in a unique way, considering the time it was made.
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 Shows the lives of several people from just before the war to the failed Warsaw Ghetto uprisingJul 09, 2006
By Richard J. Brzostek
"Border Street," a film about the Second World War, was produced in 1949 just a few years after the war finished. With the war being so current, it wasn't surprising to me that the movie avoided portraying anything controversial, such as the Russian takeover after the war. It stuck to some safe ideas, such as the Germans being the invaders, the Jews persecution, and the Poles sometimes helping the Jews, but not always being nice to them as well. "Border Street" (or "Ulica Graniczna" in Polish) shows the lives of several people from just before the war to the failed Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
One feature that distinguished this film from others about the war was that it gives attention to the viewpoint of children. In fact, the story revolves around the lives of several children, with some attention given to their parents. Both Polish and Jewish children are the heroes of the movie. They all grow mature and learn together with the fast instructor of hardship and war.
All in all, one underlining image throughout the film was that the Jews were persecuted, brave, and had a sense of duty to be with their own people, even if it meant their own doom. Although the film may be on the side of male dominance, such as when the father goes to war he tells his young son that he is now the man of the house and has to provide for the family, it was progressive in its view of females. One of the Jewish children is a spunky girl, who gave a black eye to the kid with the German roots before the start of the war.
Aleksander Ford, who is best known for his 1960 film "Krzyzacy" and is credited for helping establish Poland's international cinema reputation, directed "Border Street." The movie shows us some of the hard times the people of Poland went through and this film itself may even be a part of its healing process. Sit back and get read for an old war movie that may be sad at times, but also offers us some moments of hope.
A Holocaust MasterpieceDec 26, 2010
By danny
"Border Street" (in Polish "Ulica graniczna") was produced in 1949, which makes it the 2nd or third Holocaust movie, following its compatriot "The Last Stage" ("Ostatni etap"), filmed in Auschwitz (!) and perhaps the Czechoslovak "Distant Journey" of the same year. "Border Street" was directed by one of Poland leading directors, Aleksander Ford, himself a Jew, and tells the story of the Warsaw ghetto from the day it was opened until the end of the ghetto uprising. Ford portrays 4 very clear types: the anti-Semitic Pole (which is quite astonishing keeping in mind the movie was produced in Poland in the 40s), the Pole who feels solidarity with his Jewish brothers and tries to help as much as possible, the conservative Jew and the assimilated Jew(ess) who is totally unaware of her Jewish origins until the war begins.
The film, though occasionally old in its cinematographic language, is very effective and a true masterpiece - a Holocaust film made before the term "Holocaust movies" was coined. Because all movie studios in Poland were ruined during the war, Ford shot this film at the Barrandov studios in Prague with the complicity of Czech actors in minor roles.
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