June 1, 1971
Release Date

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The Roll-Call (1971)

Name: The Roll-Call
Genre: Animation
Released: 1971-06-01

Running Time

June 1, 1971
Release Date

External Links & Social Media

Plot.

A penal gymnastics session is underway during a roll call in a concentration camp. A brutal voice shouts furious commands: "nieder - auf!" (down – up!). One of the prisoners will not obey the commands, another one will almost survive

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Cast & Crew.

Ryszard Sulewski

Sound Engineer

Jan Tkaczyk

Cinematography

Magda Barycz

Production Manager

Ryszard Czekała

Director / Screenplay

Details.

Release Date
June 1, 1971

Original Name
Apel

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Genres
Animation

Last updated: 2025-02-13

This Movie Is About.

concentration camp

inhumanity

matter of life and death

brutality

short

nazi officer

Wiki.

Apel (Polish pronunciation: [ˈa.pɛl], variously translated as The Appeal and The Roll-Call) is a 1970 black-and-white cutout animated short film by Ryszard Czekała.

The film is about World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland: during the morning roll call, a group of concentration camp prisoners are tormented by an SS officer who orders them to perform gymnastic exercises. The prisoners are shot when they rebel against obeying orders.