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The Children Accuse

Jan 1, 1956

0h 10m

★ 6.0

Overview

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden from viewers behind the façade of socialist realist productions until the mid-1950s. The subject of the film are the effects of alcoholism, whose innocent victims are children.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Andrzej Łapicki

Drunk Boy (uncredited)

Henryk Boukołowski

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The Children Accuse

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