The Last Stage
The Last Stage (Polish: Ostatni etap) is a 1947 Polish feature film directed and co-written by Wanda Jakubowska, depicting her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Plot
Marta Weiss (Barbara Drapinska), a Polish Jew, arrives by cattle car to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While there, she catches the attention of the guards as she is multilingual and is put to work as a translator. When she inquires about the factory at the camp, a fellow inmate informs her that it is a crematorium and that the rest of her family likely has been murdered. The character Marta Weiss is based on the true life of Mala Zimetbaum.
More details
author | Bruno Baum Wanda Jakubowska |
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director | Wanda Jakubowska |
events | The Holocaust World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | barbara drapinska concentration camp death by hanging factory kapo kapos kill mala zimetbaum mentally ill murder torture |
musicBy | Roman Palester |
publisher | Film Polski |