Kino Lorber and the Polish Cultural
Institute New York present the American DVD and Blu-ray release of the 1990
black and white film
Korczak about
Henryk Goldszmit
(1878-1942)
– a Polish icon in the 1930s through his writings,
teachings, and radio programs for children and a champion of children’s rights,
under the pseudonym of Janusz Korczak. When a a group of 200 of his orphaned wards and staff
from his Warsaw
orphanage were to be deported to the gas chambers of Treblinka, he refused to
abandon them, and with them he died in the Holocaust.
Directed by Academy Award winning director Andrzej Wajda with a
screenplay by Agnieszka Holland, the film features a riveting performance by
Wojciech Pszoniak.
Many have identified
Korczak as an
inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s
Schindler’s List, and its influence
is unmistakable, and
Spielberg wrote that it is "one of the most
important European pictures about the Holocaust." Available at:
www.kinolorber.com.
