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Movie Reviews of Holocaust
Movie Review: It's a sin not to have this
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't wait to get my eyes on this film. I loved it when I watched it on tv as a child in Spain. A rich Jewish family in Berlin during the 30's and through the IIWW. The authenticity of locations, the streets, the camps, everyhing filmed outdoors has a feeling of authenticity that I can't explain how they achieved it, but it's astonishing.
The story is well told (just enough well told), but a TRAGEDY like this one, a representative tragedy of Jews during the Holocaust in Europe (mind you in Europe!) cannot -and does not- fail to amaze, make you cry, astonish you, whatever. This kind of story cannot fail to interest you.
The best in the series, besides the realistic impression of being there with the victims and the victimizers, was Meryl Streep. She's fantastic. Beside her James Woods is a failure. But let's forget him.
In one word: a film as beautiful as much as it hurts to witness the evil times of early 20th century. May God keep us away from hatred.
Movie Review: Harrowing, Disturbing,Real.
Summary: 5 Stars
*(If anyone knows when this DVD will be released please say so i would very much like to know)I have only recently come across this mini-series after renting it from my videostore and only even heard of this when researching more on Meryl Streep after viewing her incredible performnce in "Sophie's Choice".
Admirers of Ms.Streep won't be dissapointed in her performance nor will they with the rest.
Spanning over a decade (1935-1945), "Holocaust" focuses on the Weiss Family of Berlin and all the terror that each individual faces during their darkest days.
The characters are endearing and audiences will easily empathise with the strife they face.
This docu-drama is an accurate and on several occasions, highly disturbing account of man's inhumanity to mankind.
It's won 8 out of 16 emmy awards (1 Emmy which Meryl Streep won) and deserves each one.
I believe that every jewish man and woman should see this film and anyone else who is interested in History's blackest decade.
Movie Review: Touching movie from all sides.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen many movies about the holocaust and this one has to be the best one by far. This movie gives you a powerful story of a jewish doctor the changes he and his family endured as Hitler came into power. The movie follows different members of his family into ghettos, fighting with the partisans, and into the camps.
You also are given a view from a high ranking Nazi official who started out a an ordinary attorney needing work after the downfall of the economy in Gemany after World War I. Officer Dorf finds himself rising in the ranks of a regime that he does not necessarily understand or always agree with, but finds that the power and influence of being a Nazi soldier, as so many others, out weighed their compassion for the human race.
This movie is graphic and disturbing, but gives the most accurate representation of the Holocast of any movie I have seen. And I must say, Meryl Streep is phenomenal...
Movie Review: Much better than I thought it might be...
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I was concerned that a TV mini-series made in the late 1970's just wouldn't hold up to 2009 "entertainment" standards, if that is the right word for such a painful topic.
But I was moved by how truly affecting it really is. Although it is a story that deals with the lives of I think 8 different characters, and therefore suffers from a slight loss in character identification, it remains a powerful film. The production values are superb, most of the acting is outstanding, and from what I know of that period in history (via Richard Evans' great books and others I've read) it manages to convey, accurately, the main events through the characters' experiences, and without undue exposition. Having said that, I think one's appreciation of the of the story can be helped by knowing the basic outline of the major events of the period, and the prime players in the Third Reich before watching the film. Recommended!
Movie Review: EX Mini series, poor transfer, and black gaps in between scenes
Summary: 5 Stars
I still don't understand why movie companies don't get it, this is the 30th Anniversary Edition of the TV mini series Holocaust and the transfer is below average, sound is OK and in some parts there is a black gap in between scenes, the one I remember is when Dr. Weiss goes to the next room where his wife and daughter are playing piano and in between both scenes there is a patient standing up and Dr Weiss tells her to wait, well, on my VHS version I have the lady patient standing up, on my "30th Anniversary Edition" there is no lady patient and the scene goes directly from Dr Weiss going from his office to the scene where his wife and daughter are playing the piano, there is other parts in the movie with the same problem. What happened, did I get a defective copy, why only 7 hours and 29 minutes, why not the whole mini series 9 hours and 50 I still don' understand.