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Jul 14, 2014 · 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. Starring Edward Zentara and Christoph...
- 3 min
- 45.2K
- Ignatius Press
Mar 3, 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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- Biography, Drama
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1991-03-03
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe. "Auschwitz, 1941. One of the prisoners, Jan, escapes from the German concentration camp while working at a gravel pit. Thanks to the help of kind-hearted people, he finds shelter.
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
- 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...
Aug 29, 2014 · "Life for Life" is a dark movie that highlights Father Maximilian Kolbe work to ease suffering of fellow prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. And finally his offer (accepted) to take the place of a condemned man who was a husband and father.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe. After the war a man tries to piece together the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. Based on the real priest, who later became a catholic saint (1894-1941).
