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14 lug 2014 · 277. 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....
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3 mar 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
- Vincentiu
- Edward Zentara, Christoph Waltz, Artur Barcis
- 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...
There Jan hears tragic news about ten random inmates sentenced by the Nazis to death by starvation as a punishment for his escape. One among the convicts is Fr. Maximillian Kolbe, a Franciscan priest who volunteered to die in place of one of the inmates.
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
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. Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991) directed by Krzysztof Zanussi • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
Synopsis. 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. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Christoph Waltz. Jan Tytz. Edward Żentara. ojciec Maksymilian Kolbe. Artur Barciś. brat Anzelm. Tadeusz Bradecki.
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