Hallo,
i just saw this movie and wanted to know which movie Solly watches together with his "girl-friend" at the cinema in Lodz? Is it a real movie or a "Wochenschau"? IMDb does not say anything about that in "movie connections" ("features...???").
Who knows?
Thanks,
Alex
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I'm pretty sure the Polish movie they were watching in Lodz was called "Gehenna"(could be translated as "Hell" or "Purgatory" ) made in 1938. I vaguely remember watching it with my gran at 10...she loved the oldies so every Sunday I had to sit through a pre-war movie lol.
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Cuz they don't know any better. It doesn't show up in the credits. Unless someone sends a note to the IMDB administrators to include it in the trivia there will be no info.
I realized it was "Gehenna" when I listened to the polish dialogs coming from the screen. I know the movie plot and Mniszkowna's novel. The woman screams: "Jezusie Chrystusie, to ja Ania...Andrzeju ty nie mozesz umrzec, ty nie mozesz mnie zostawic, Andrzeju" ("Jesus Christ, it's me Ania...Andrew you can't die, you can't leave me, Andrew ").
Here's the exact movie shot (scroll to the very end) from a website devoted to Witold Zacharewicz, a famous pre-war actor who played the title role of Andrzej. "Gehenna" was his last movie. He signed a contract with United Artists in 1939 (he spoke english, german and french fluently) but WWII made his trip to Hollywood impossible.
http://witold.zacharewicz.com.pl/gehenna/index.html
I'm positive Agnieszka Holland put this particular movie(Gehenna is a Hebrew word for eternal punishment)with this particular actor there symbolically. Here's why. Zacharewicz and his mother were arrested by Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz for helping Jews obtain false papers, which was the most serious "criminal" activity in the Nazi occupied Poland. As a political prisoner he was murdered in the camp with a phenol injection in 1943 on the order of Politische Abteilung. His mother died in Birkenau as well.
http://witold.zacharewicz.com.pl/aushwitz/index.html