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A dark coming-of-age film, Samson follows its Jewish protagonist (Serge Merlin) from an anti-Semitic private school to a prison, then into a Jewish ghetto, and finally over the ghetto wall to the outside world.
Samson: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Jan Ciecierski. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1961-09-11
Nov 17, 2021 · Nominated for the Golden Lion in 1961 at the venice Film festival “Samson” is the story of a Jew, Jakub Gold (Serge Merlin), at the polytechnic university in Warsaw imprisoned and sentenced to 10 years for accidentally killing his friend in German- occupied Poland.
Overview. While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power. Gianfranco Parolini.
1961 Directed by Andrzej Wajda. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
- Andrzej Wajda
- Zespół Filmowy "Droga, Zespół Filmowy Kadr
Samson is a 1961 film made by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the Holocaust. Wajda's World War II film alludes to the Old Testament story of Samson, who had supernatural physical strength.
Mar 13, 2020 · Samson is perhaps the earliest narrative film to portray the Warsaw ghetto, and perhaps the first to examine the Jewish experience in Warsaw during the war. At the beginning of the film, Jakub – played by Algerian French actor Serge Merlin – is a student at a local university before the world.
