![]() ![]() While some of the acting in The Last Stage seems hokey and the film’s blatant communist propaganda has not aged well, it contains many unforgettable images of everyday life and death in the most infamous Konzentrationslager: a German doctor administering a lethal injection to a Polish newborn a Jewish woman who has just arrived at the camp being comforted by her daughter, who claims that if the Germans wanted to kill them they would have sent them to the forest and scenes of emaciated, dirty inmates in rags interspersed with images of the ruddy SS-men and women running the camp (including an obese commandant, who looks strikingly different from his victims) drinking fine wines, joking, and waltzing to Strauss. The film tells the story of a group of female inmates from various occupied countries who start a resistance movement in the camp. This autobiographical work was directed by Wanda Jakubowska, herself a former inmate at Auschwitz-Birkenau due to her activity with Poland’s communist resistance, and was filmed at the former Nazi-German camp mere months after its liberation. ![]() Wanda Jakubowska, 1947Īlthough countless films have been made about the Third Reich’s crimes, The Last Stage was one of the first (if not the first). The new service offers a unique opportunity for international audiences to get a taste of one of the world’s most important and influential national cinematic canons.īelow we present a curated list of ten works available at 35mm.online that provide a chronologically, thematically and tonally diverse sample of some of the finest works of Polish culture in the twentieth century. ![]() Hundreds of classic Polish films made available for free online ![]()
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