The Children Accuse (1956)

6.5/10 10 min Documentary

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.

Cast

Andrzej Łapicki

Narrator (voice)

Henryk Boukołowski

Drunk Boy (uncredited)

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