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The Passenger (Pasazerka)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1963 |
| Running time: | 62 minutes |
| Cast: | Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Janusz Bylczynski, Krystyna Dubielowna, Anna Golebiowska |
| Director: | Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz |
| Writer: | Andrzej Munk, Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka |
| Distributor: | Altura Films Inc. |
Description: Aleksandra Slaska portrays a German matron taking a long ocean voyage with her husband. While roaming the deck, she spots a passenger she thinks she recognizes. That she does: The passenger (Anna Ciepielewska) had been an inmate at Auchwitz, where Slaska served as a guard. An alternately realistic and illusory study in guilt and retribution, The Passenger (original title: Pasazerka) was halfway through production in 1961 when its director, Andrzej Munk, was killed in an auto accident. Munk's friends loyally tried to complete the project, bridging a few scenes with still pictures (in the manner of restored film classics like the 1937 Lost Horizon and the 1954 A Star is Born). Finally released in Poland in 1963, The Passenger didn't make it to the US until 1970.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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