Just Beyond This Forest - Jeszcze Tylko Ten Las DVD

Just Beyond This Forest - Jeszcze Tylko Ten Las DVD

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Set in 1942, film opens with an Aryan washerwoman arrival to the Warsaw's ghetto. The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over. Realizing she has the upper hand, the maid is rude and overbearing with her former employer, allowing the desperate woman to shower her with gifts and money before she'll take the child away. Later, they leave by train, but it's stopped, and they have to proceed on foot. By this time, the innocent youngster begun to charm her companion, so by the time they are stopped by German patrol, the woman is prepared to risk her life for the child.

Ryszarda Hanin was awared the Best Actress by the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

Jest rok 1942. Starsza kobieta, Kulgawcowa podejmuje sie wyprowadzic z getta dziesiecioletnia Zydowke, corke swojej bylej pracodawczyni. Za zaoferowane jej pieniadze ma ukryc dziewczynke u swojej rodziny na wsi. Kulgawcowa szczesliwie dociera z dzieckiem na dworzec. W pociagu jednak jest obserwowana przez naciagacza, ktory domaga sie od niej gotowki. Dzieki pomocy mlodego czlowieka udaje jej sie wyjsc calo z opresji. Dalej czeka ich juz tylko piesza wedrowka. Niestety, kiedy obie sa juz blisko celu, natrafiaja na niemiecki patrol... Film otrzymal Nagrode Specjalna Jury na Festiwalu Polskich Filmow Fabularnych w Gdansku w 1991 roku, natomiast Ryszarda Hanin uhonorowana zostala Zlotymi Lwami.

Cast: Ryszarda Hanin, Joanna Friedman, Marzena Trybala, Marta Klubowicz
Directed by Jan Lomnicki
1991, 4:3, Color, 87 mins.
Features: Director's Biography
NTSC format - ready to use in the USA and Canada - no need for multisystem equipment.
In Polish with optional English Subtitles
Genre: World War I-II, Drama