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Passenger
“Jailer and prisoner… both haunted by the Holocaust.”
7.3 / 10• 1963• 1h 2m•NR• Polish
DramaWar
Storyline
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Cast & Crew
Aleksandra Śląska
Liza
Lead
Anna Ciepielewska
Marta
Janusz Bylczyński
Capo
KD
Krzesislawa Dubielówna
Prisoner
AG
Anna Gołębiowska
Female Prisoner
Barbara Horawianka
Nurse
Anna Jaraczówna
Capo
Maria Kościałkowska
Guard Inga Weniger
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Andrzej Munk's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Passenger is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
