WE OWE OUR LIVES TO HIM

POLISH TITLE: DZIĘKI NIEMU ŻYJEMY

This is a portrait of Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army officer who saved composer Wladyslaw Szpilman wandering about the ruins of Warsaw and himself died in a Soviet concentration camp after the war. A well documented story narrated by the captain’s children as well as the sons of Poles whom Hosenfeld saved from death.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
46'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
A. Marek Drążewski
SCRIPT:
A. Marek Drążewski
DOP:
Jacek Knopp, Łukasz Nowicki
MUSIC:
Marek Bieńkuński
PRODUCTION:
TVN, Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop