Eureka! Classics
Leben für Leben

Specifications
- Poland / Germany, 1991
- directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1.33:1
- Stereo
- colour, 90 minutes
- Certificate: 15
- Date Released: October 2008
DVD Features
- Main language English (original language Polish)
- Optional English subtitles
Eureka! Classics | Life for Life – Maximilian Kolbe
When Jan escapes from Auschwitz concentration camp to freedom in July 1941 the camp commandant, Fritsch, sentences ten men to starvation as revenge. When one of them collapses under this sentence of death, the franciscan priest, Maximilian Maria Kolbe, sacrifices his own life so that his fellow inmates may live.
From now on, Jan is not only fleeing the Gestapo, but also guilt for his involvement in Kolbe’s death. The horrors of Auschwitz are, in a sense, over – only to be replaced by a crippling fear and guilt from which there is no escape.
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Alternative titles:
Leben für Leben (Germany), Życie za życie (Poland), Life for Life (UK)
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