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and misrepresenting the historical truth. At the same time though, it inspired among Poles "a new curiosity in Polish Jewish history", including for
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the film has an approval rating of 83% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's consensus states: "It represents an occasionally uneven collision of genres, but all in all, Wladyslaw
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