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Holy Week

1996Directed by Andrzej Wajda

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Runtime
1h 37m

About Holy Week

  • Drama
  • War
  • History

Synopsis

During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.

Director
  • Andrzej Wajda
Writers
  • Jerzy Andrzejewski
  • Andrzej Wajda
Original title
Wielki tydzień

Principal cast

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