The Passenger
Cast & Crew
Andrzej Munk
Aleksandra Slaska
Anna Ciepielewska
Jan Kreczmar
Marek Walczewski
Maria Koscialkowska
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When Liza and her husband, Walter, arrive at Southampton on an ocean liner from the United States, she is shocked to see a woman whom she believes to be Marta, a former prisoner at the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Liza tells her husband that as an overseer at the camp, she had helped Marta arrange a rendezvous with her fiancé, Tadeusz, who was also a prisoner. The last Liza knew of Marta was that she had been taken to one of the death cells where the prisoners were kept before execution. Liza then recalls the details of the situation in which she was intensely jealous of Marta's love for Tadeusz. Marta and Tadeusz had been brought together by the Resistance and had been sent to prison together. Liza had tried to dominate Marta with her knowledge of the lovers' secret meetings. Eventually Marta was taken to the death cell, and Liza was promoted to a position with the SS in Berlin.
Director
Andrzej Munk
Cast
Aleksandra Slaska
Anna Ciepielewska
Jan Kreczmar
Marek Walczewski
Maria Koscialkowska
Irena Malkiewicz
Leon Pietraszkiewicz
Janusz Bylczynski
A. Golebiowska
John Rees
Vanda Jones
Barbara Horawianka
Anna Jaraczówna
Andrzej Krasicki
S. Musial
L. Olszewska
W. Swaryczewska
Zbigniew Szymborski
Barbara Walkówna
Kazimierz Rudzki
Boguslaw Sochnacki
Elzbieta Czyzewska
Maria Ciesielska
Crew
Tadeusz Baird
Andrzej Brzozowski
Wieslawa Chojkowska
Zofia Dwornik
Anna Dyrka
Filharmonii Narodowej
Tamara Gawrys
Wieslaw Grzelczak
Wilhelm Hollender
Tadeusz Jakuczyn
Wlodzimierz Kaminski
Romuald Korczak
Witold Lesiewicz
Stanislaw Matuszewski
John Minchinton
Leonard Mokicz
Andrzej Munk
Barbara Pec Slesicka
Maria Piatkowska
Andrzej Piotrowski
Mieczyslaw Posmiechowicz
Zofia Posmysz-piasecka
Zofia Posmysz-piasecka
Jerzy Possak
Wieslaw Rutowicz
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Jerzy Szawlowski
Teresa Tomaszewska
Wladyslaw Tomaszewski
Henryk Wasilewski
Krzysztof Winiewicz
Stanislaw Wislocki
Wiktor Woroszylski
Tadeusz Wybult
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Opened in Warsaw in September 1963 as Pasazerka. After the death of director Munk, Lesiewicz compiled the final version from completed footage and still photographs. Original Polish narrator is Tadeusz Lomnicki.
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