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DIRECTED By: Tanja Cummings
SCREENPLAy: Tanja Cummings
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Marek Iwicki
EDITING: Tanja Cummings,
Marek Iwicki
HISTORICAL CONSULTATION:
Ewa Wiatr, dr Andrea Löw, dr Krystyna
Radziszewska, Iza Terela
DOCUMENTATION: Tanja Cummings
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Marek Iwicki
PRODUCER: Tanja Cummings
PRODUCTION: European Association
for East-West Rapproachmnet (EVA)
CO-PRODUCTION: Weltfilm GmbH
(Co-Production)
LENGTH: approx. 90 min
(the film is still in postproduction)
LANGUAGE: Polish and German
PRODUCTION DATE: 2014
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED:
photographs from the Łódź ghetto,
Legitimationskarten (work permits) The main storyline features Natan Grossman's return to Łódź.
Grossman, survivor of the Holocaust, lost his brother in the ghetto
from the Łódź ghetto, lists
of deportees, materials from in 1942. His parents perished during the war. years later he visits
the collection of the State Archive the city and has to face his traumatic past and return to places
in Łódź, Bundesarchiv, Museum and events he wanted to forget.
of Independence Traditions Other survivors and witnesses act as guides to the history of the
(Radogoszcz Branch, Radegast Sta-
Łódź ghetto. A Polish woman named Henryka Żyndul recalls her
tion Branch) in Łódź, family archives.
FEATURING: Natan Grossman everyday journeys on a tram which crossed the ghetto.
Jens-Jürgen Ventzki, son of Werner Ventzki, the Nazi Oberburger-
(Survivor), Jens-Jürgen Ventzki
(Witness), Tanja Cummings, Armin meister of Litzmannstadt who was responsible for the creation of
Hornberger (Witness), Helena Bergson the ghetto and extermination of its inhabitants, decides to under-
(Survivor), Ewa Wiatr (Expert), take the difficult confrontation with his father's past. The tram of
Waldemar Seiler (Witness), the title, No. 41, which crossed the ghetto through a fenced-off
Tadeusz Borowski (Witness),
corridor, is a metaphor for the complicated stories and intersecting
Henryka Żyndul (Witness), Krystyna
Latuszewska (Witness), Zdzisław fates of Łódź inhabitants, who lived in the same city, but under
Lorek (Expert), Grzegorz Wróbel different conditions.
(Expert) B.Z.
FILMING LOCATIONS IN ŁÓDŹ: photographs of Zgierska Street,
Kościelny Square (2), Wojska Polskiego/Zielna Streets (33),
the former Gypsy camp (32), 1 and 2 Zielna Street (26),
2 Tokarzewskiego Street (the former metal department, today
the Municipal Street Care and Cleaning Company) (24), Old Market
Square (8), ‘the red house’ – former Kripo post at 8/10, Kościelna
Street (1) Radegast station (36), Jewish cemetery at Bracka Street
(35), Staromiejski Park.
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