Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions.
Acting
Woronowicz captures Kolbe's unsettling serenity in hell.
Production
Auschwitz recreated with documentarian restraint, not exploitation.
Director
Michał Kondrat
Adam Woronowicz
Father Maksymilian Kolbe
Artur Barciś
Paweł Deląg
Priest Włodzimierz Jakowski
Arkadiusz Janiczek
Brother Stanisław
Ksawery Szlenkier
Brother Bruno
Michał Chorosiński
Auschwitz Prisoner
Tadeusz Chudecki
Bishop
Dominika Figurska
Marianna Kolbe
Marcin Kwaśny
Physician
Maciej Musiał
Young Franciscan
Sławomir Orzechowski
Antoni Pawlicki
SS-Man
Mateusz Pawłowski
Rajmund Kolbe (child)
Cezary Pazura
Władysław Zenon Żebrowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real starvation cell (Cell 18) still stands at Auschwitz; pilgrims leave candles where Kolbe died.
Franciszek Gajowniccek, the man Kolbe saved, attended his 1982 canonization and died in 1995—surviving both Auschwitz and the 20th century.
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