Passenger
Passenger is a 1963 film by Andrzej Munk, who also directed Man on the Tracks, and reflects the director's particular interest in making its audience reflect about "the ways perpetrators construct a morally acceptable post-war account of their crimes" (Iordanova 79). Munk died in a car crash before the film was finished, but it was completed after his death, using still images from production and a voice-over to narrate the missing scenes. Passenger tells the story of a former SS officer named Liza and her time spent working Auschwitz during World War II, in particular, focusing on her relationship with a non-Jewish political prisoner named Marta. The film tells the story twice; once through the eyes of Liza glorifying her past actions, and once as they really happened. The two versions of the events and the differences between them show the audience the memories Liza decided to keep only for herself and not share with her husband. Parts were filmed inside Auschwitz with former prisoners portraying the camp's inmates.
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