Holy Week
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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.
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Cast
26 people
Beata Fudalej
Irena Lilien
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Wojciech Malajkat
Jan Malecki
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Magdalena Warzecha
Anna Malecka
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Jakub Przebindowski
Julek Malecki
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Wojciech Pszoniak
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Agnieszka Kotulanka
Karska
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Krzysztof Stroiński
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Michał Pawlicki
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Andrzej Wajda Director · Jerzy Andrzejewski Author Wit Dąbal Cinematographer
First release March 1, 1996 · Produced in Poland · Production Heritage Films
Production
Les Films du Losange
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Heritage Films
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Poland
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Original title
Wielki tydzień
Original language
Polish
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Polish
Release dates
Poland · March 1, 1996
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No release date listed for United States.
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