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Passenger

1963 · 62 min

An austere, haunting reckoning with memory and complicity, told with fragmentary, mournful restraint.

Tagline
Jailer and prisoner… both haunted by the Holocaust.
Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • memory
  • death
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • sea
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, war
Directed by
Witold Lesiewicz, Andrzej Munk
Written by
Zofia Posmysz, Andrzej Munk
Starring
Aleksandra Śląska, Anna Ciepielewska, Janusz Bylczyński, Krzesislawa Dubielówna, Anna Gołębiowska, Barbara Horawianka, Anna Jaraczówna, Maria Kościałkowska
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
62 min
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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