Andrzej Wajda's KORCZAK paid tribute to a man who spent most of his life in pursuit of an ideal. Although a recognized doctor of medicine and a committed pedagogue who in 1911 had founded an orphanage for Jewish children, it was through his writings that he became internationally known. Set in 1942, three years after the German invasion of Poland, the film covers the last tragic chapter of KORCZAK’s life at the Jewish orphanage located just outside the confines of the Warsaw Ghetto.