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14. Juli 2014 · 44K views 9 years ago. Film Trailer – LIFE FOR LIFE: Maximillian Kolbe Touching film about Maximillian Kolbe, a man who gave his life and volunteer to die instead of another. Starring...
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3. März 1991 · Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe: Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. With Edward Zentara, Christoph Waltz, Artur Barcis, Gustaw Lutkiewicz. The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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- Krzysztof Zanussi
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- Edward Zentara, Christoph Waltz, Artur Barcis
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe. A priest (Edward Zentara) offers his own life when the commandant of Auschwitz sentences 10 prisoners to die after another's escape.
- History, Drama
- Edward Zentara
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Multiple Views of A Saint
- An Incomprehensible Act
- Saint and Sly Dog
- Confessor Or Martyr?
What exactly happened? Why did Kolbe do it? To this question there is no unequivocal answer. We must piece together a larger picture from the testimony of those who knew Kolbe, either before or in Auschwitz. Among these are a young Franciscan named Anselm (Artur Barciś) who witnessed Kolbe’s arrest during the Nazi roundup of Polish intellectuals; a...
Christoph Waltz—who went onto Hollywood success with his Oscar-winning roles in Quentin Tarantino’s lurid historical fantasies Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained—stars here in a World War II drama far more sober than his first Tarantino film (where he played a Jew-hunting Nazi). The German-Austrian actor plays a captured insurgent from Siles...
Using Jan as a foil, Zanussi slowly sketches a portrait of Kolbe in flashbacks, initially in episodes related by those who knew him. The saint emerges from the shadows—literally so in a key shot in the first substantial flashback, over a half hour into the film—as a figure of great integrity, discipline and intelligence, of outward action and inner...
Among the flashbacks is a well-known episode from Kolbe’s youth in which the boy (Raymund was his baptismal name) related to his mother how the Virgin Mary came to him offering two crowns, a white one for purity and a red one for martyrdom—and that he chose both of them. Late in the film, though, is a scene in the Vatican illustrating the theologic...
Movie Night • 1h 31m. 67 comments. Auschwitz, 1941. One of the prisoners, Jan, escapes from the German concentration camp while working at a gravel pit. Thanks to the help of kind-hearted people, he finds shelter. There Jan hears tragic news about ten random inmates sentenced by the Nazis to death by starvation as a punishment for his escape.
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe. "Auschwitz, 1941. One of the prisoners, Jan, escapes from the German concentration camp while working at a gravel pit. Thanks to the help of kind-hearted people, he finds shelter.
Maksymilian Kolbe. Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
