Passenger

Television drama dealing with an SS officer making her way back to Germany on a boat after the WW2 who thinks she recognizes an ex-prisoner from Auschwitz on the boat. She tells her husband that she was the inspector in the camp during the war but that she saved the life of one woman. The story of the film is based on a 1959 radio drama “The traveler from Cabin no. 45” (Pasazerka z kabiny 45) by Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka. Posmysz-Piasecka participated in writing the film script together with the director of the film Andrzej Munk. This is the director’s last film and was completed by his friend after Munk was killed in an accident during the making of the film. The original footage, the photographs and the broadcasting are the components of the film and the result is an original work what has aroused great praise and interest. The film was praised at the 1964 Cannes Festival and won the Italian Critics Prize at the Venice Festival in 1964.