33 Photos From the Ghetto to Debut on HBO January 27
The Polish HBO Original documentary 33 Photos From the Ghetto, directed by Jan Czarlewski, debuts on Tuesday, January 27 (9:00-10:20 pm ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
33 Photos From the Ghetto tells the story of the only known photographs from inside the Warsaw Ghetto during the April 1943 uprising and its brutal repression that were not taken by German forces.
The images, taken secretly by 23-year-old Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski, who witnessed the devastating response to the uprising as a member of the Warsaw Fire Service, present a rare civilian account of one of World War II’s darkest moments.
The film traces two families, one of which is Jewish, who preserved the images for decades but hadn’t brought them to light. 80 years after their creation, the photographer’s son finds the forgotten negatives and launches an investigation.
With a team of researchers, archivists, and animators who use near-forensic precision to reconstruct locations and contexts, they trace the circumstances of those tragic days and the lives captured in each frame.
HBO Documentary Films is presenting 33 Photos From the Ghetto, directed by Jan Czarlewski and written by Jan Czarlewski and Carlotta Verny. Creative produced by Miroslaw Bork; co-produced by MWM Media, TVN Warner Bros. Discovery, the Polish Film Institute, the City Culture Institute in Gdańsk, operator of the Gdańsk Film Fund; and for HBO, the producer is Magda Szczawińska.
