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Samson is a polonais film of genre Drama directed by Andrzej Wajda with Serge Merlin
Samson (1961)
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OriginPologne
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating62%
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. But unlike the Biblical character, Wajda's Samson has great emotional strength.
Synopsis
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. Wajda uses this journey as a means to explore expressionist cinematography and the weighty issues facing the Jewish people.Actors
Serge Merlin
(Jakub Gold)
Beata Tyszkiewicz
(Stasia)
Alina Janowska
(Lucyna)
Elżbieta Kępińska
(Kazia, Malina's Niece)
Tadeusz Bartosik
(Pankrat)
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