THE GIRL FROM A READING PRIMER

POLISH TITLE: ALA Z ELEMENTARZA

Marek Edelman was a widely recognized leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. But how many people have heard of his wife, Ala? Ala’s life was extraordinary from the very beginning. Before the war, as a little girl, she became a major character in the most popular reading primer in Poland. She was a ghetto survivor, afterwards she devoted all her attention to children of the world – in Asia, in Africa and in Europe. She helped to save lives and heal hundreds of kids. The film, enriched with some animated footage, tells the fascinating story of Ala from the Polish reading primer.


FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:

documentary

COUNTRY:

Polska

RUNNING TIME:

28'

YEAR:

2010

DIRECTING:

Edyta Wróblewska

SCRIPT:

Edyta Wróblewska

DOP:

Piotr Niemyjski

EDITOR:

Grzegorz Mazur

MUSIC:

Marcin Kuczewski

PRODUCTION:

Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop