Wanda Jakubowska

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Polish filmmaker Wanda Jakubowska has been creating movies for over 50 years, but her most significant contributions to cinema came from the years around World War II. Her 1946 film Ostatni Etap/The Last Stage, a chronicle of the relationships formed between female prisoners in Nazi concentration camps based on her experiences while interned in Auschwitz was the first Polish post-war film to gain international distribution; it was also only the second feature produced by the newly formed Film Polski, the state film board. Jakubowska was also a key figure in the founding of START (Stowarzyszenie Milosnikow Filmu Artystycznego/Society for Devotees of Artistic Film) in 1929. This organization attempted to promote the production of films about artistic and social committment. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Wanda Jakubowska
Born	10 October 1907(1907-10-10) Warsaw, Poland
Died	25 February 1998(1998-02-25) (aged 90) Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1932 - 1988

Wanda Jakubowska (10 October 1907 in Warsaw – 25 February 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish film director. During World War II, she was a prisoner in Auschwitz. After the war, she made movie Ostatni etap (The Last Stage) in 1947. The film was partly shot on location at Auschwitz concentration camp. The film is based on director Wanda Jakubowska's personal experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz. She claimed that what helped her to survive Auschwitz was constantly thinking about the documentation of her experiences.

Selected filmography

The Last Stage (1947)
The Sea (1933)

External links

Wanda Jakubowska at the Internet Movie Database

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Persondata
Name	Jakubowska, Wanda
Alternative names
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	1907-10-10
Place of birth	Warsaw, Poland
Date of death	1998-2-25
Place of death	Warsaw, Poland

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