Ambulance
1961, Polish. Directed by Janusz Morgenstern.
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.
- Runtime
- 0h 11m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Polish
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- Released
- 1 January 1961
- Original title
- Ambulans
- Country
- Poland
- Written by
- Tadeusz Łomnicki
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Ambulance runs 11 minutes (0h 11m).
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Ambulance isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1961. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Ambulance?
Ambulance (1961) was directed by Janusz Morgenstern and stars Zbigniew Józefowicz, Leopold Rene Nowak, Marek Sniatkiewicz.