Calling Mr. Smith (1943)

A short anti-war film denouncing the destruction of Polish national culture under the Nazis.

Date of release
1943-01-23
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
10m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson

Interesting facts

Calling Mr. Smith is a short experimental (avant-garde) anti-Nazi Polish-British film from 1943, created by Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson.

Development

The film was written, directed, photographed and edited by Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson, in association with the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Documentation of the Polish government-in-exile in London. It reused some materials from the 1942 Black Book of Poland, a Polish report on German war crimes.

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