What a great thread, thanks to all for contributing. There are many films here that I was unaware of, I'll be making sure I see some of these.
Re: Holocaust related movies
What a great thread, thanks to all for contributing. There are many films here that I was unaware of, I'll be making sure I see some of these.
Re: Holocaust related movies
'The Boat Is Full'- Switzerland 1981 A small group of Jewish prisoners escape from a train and try to get refugee status in Switzerland-dark and bleak exposure of Swiss govt attitudes during the war.
Another, lesser known film is "The Memory Thief", a drama by Gil Kofman (2007). The film tells the story of a lonely young American man who works as a tollbooth operator. His growing obsession with the Holocaust and in particular, interviews with survivors, leads to a mental breakdown. Jeannette Catsoulis, writing for the New York Times called it a "strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness".
I thoughts Schindlers list was a fantastic film, not graphic enough to disgust people but made a lot of people think about the actual reality of war and especially the holocaust, class film
Ben
The Pianist (2002) - IMDbby meyle77
Yup i enjoyed that one!...
I completely agree Ben, a fantastic film. It's attention to detail was absolutely impeccable. What I've always appreciated is how the producer utilized the vibrant red in a all black in white film to emphasize the innocent young girls dress; once when Schindler sees her for the first time, and finally when he sees her lifeless body being thrown into a burning pit of humans.I thoughts Schindlers list was a fantastic film, not graphic enough to disgust people but made a lot of people think about the actual reality of war and especially the holocaust, class film
Personally, I always interpreted that moment to be Schindler's final epiphany persee. The viewer can truly see for the first time the anguish and disgust within his eyes; it's quite the enduring scene if you ask me.
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Defiance - BBC iPlayer
For those of you with BBC iPlayer access :-
Defiance ... [only until 14th November]
BBC iPlayer - Defiance
Adam Resurrected was quite a good film. It deals more with the physiological aftermath of the holocaust but has numerous flashbacks to his time in the camps.
In France, we have Shoah, 5 hours long.
Claude Lanzmann on Shoah - From the Current - The Criterion Collection
Death is my job
La mort est mon métier - Bande annonce - YouTube
This brings to mind the German 1977 film Aus einem deutschen Leben. Starring well-known German actor Götz George (son of Heinrich George, by the way), it is the film adapation of La mort est mon métier [Published in Germany as Der Tod ist mein Beruf].
A slightly fictionalized biography of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß, (here called Franz Lang), this is a rather gripping psychological study of one man's journey into becoming an industrialized mass murderer, mostly from a perverted sense of duty with an unquestioning belief in the principle of order and obeyance, combined with a misguided sense of patriotism and a bit of careerism.
The film differs from most of the others mentioned above as it is fully told from the perspective of a perpetrator (or rather, from a perspective accompanying said perpetrator).
See:
Aus einem deutschen Leben (DE 1976/1977) - Deutscher Trailer - YouTube
Death Is My Trade (1977) - IMDb
Aus einem deutschen Leben
Another Holocaust-related film starring Götz George is the fictional Mengele-in-court drama Nichts als die Wahrheit [English title After the Truth] made in 1999.
See:
After the Truth - Clip: The Return of Mengele - YouTube
Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999) - IMDb
After the Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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