The Last Stage

1948 · 104 min · dir. Wanda Jakubowska

The Last Stage is a 1948 Polish historical drama film directed by Wanda Jakubowska and written by Jakubowska and Gerda Schneider, depicting her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The film was one of the early cinematic efforts to describe the Holocaust. Jakubowska’s film influenced subsequent directors that dealt with the subject, including Alain Resnais, Gillo Pontecorvo and Steven Spielberg. In film criticism, it is often referred to as "the mother of all holocaust films". Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.