The Children Accuse (1956)
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.
Directors: Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman.
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Andrzej Łapicki as Narrator (voice) |
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Henryk Boukołowski as Drunk Boy (uncredited) |
| Sound | Halina Paszkowska | Sound |
| Writing | Jerzy Hoffman | Writer |
| Writing | Edward Skórzewski | Writer |
| Writing | Karol Małcużyński | Writer |
| Camera | Antoni Staśkiewicz | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ludmila Godziaszwili | Editor |
| Directing | Edward Skórzewski | Director |
| Directing | Jerzy Hoffman | Director |