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Actor: Joseph Bottoms, Rosemary Harris, Tom Bell, Tony Haygarth, Tovah FeldshuhBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Cinematographer: Brian West
Editor: Alan Heim
Editor: Brian Smedley-Aston
Editor: Craig McKay
Editor: Robert M. Reitano
Editor: Stephen A. Rotter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 475 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Holocaust
DVD Review: The holocaust
Summary: 5 Stars
I first watched this mini sereis when it was first released on TV back in the late 1970's. I found it extremely moving then, and it has not lost any of the powerful messages thirty years on. I thoroughly recommend it.DVD Review: Wonderful!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very well done TV mini-series from 1978. I remember seeing it then and being quite moved by the acting and the historical accuracy. I often use it to teach the Holocaust to my own students. It is a piece that should be used in every classroom. Minor flaws with the film are that there are no subtitles available. (The cast is made up of German, Polish, Russian, British, Hungarian, and American actors. It is sometimes difficult to understand the dialog without the guide of a glossary of terms.) Some of the acting is a little overdone, but overall, all of the characters are made believable. The historical locations become vivid, also, so much so, that students want to visit these places in 2009. I would highly recommend this film for those just beginning the study of the Holocaust. This movie contains information that cannot be found in many others of it's genre. Kristallnacht, the beginning of the camps, the suffering of the families, Zyklon-B, the ghettos, etc. are topics often never mentioned in later movies. This movie lives true to its original plotline of being "The first effective docu/drama about the Holocaust!" DVD Review: WW II Atrocities
Summary: 4 Stars
This film, in a fictional manner, shows just what atrocities were committed by a totalitarion regime against anyone who opposed their way of thinking. The film will leave you heartsick and your handkerchief wet. It is hard to imagine how anyone could do such things to another person and actually seem to enjoy it. The fictional family is portryed by an all star cast who show the full tragidy of what befell them simply because of thier race.DVD Review: History -
Summary: 5 Stars
Every History Department in High Schools should have to show this movie to the students in every class. History repeats itself and one should be aware of the pitfalls. This is an excellent version of what happened to a Jewish Family during WWII
Description of Holocaust
An original TV dramatization of one of the most monstrous crimes in world history - the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. Dramatically and definitively, the story covers an entire decade, the eventful years from 1935 to 1945. HOLOCAUST focuses on the tragedy and triumph of a single family - the Weiss family. Their story is told in counter-poise to that of another fictional family, that of Erik Dorf, who portrays a Nazi aide to Germany's infamous Heydrich. Starring a brilliant international cast and filmed on location in Berlin and Vienna.The 30th anniversary edition of Holocaust marks the first time this remarkable, nine-and-a-half-hour television miniseries has been released on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC as part of an ongoing TV phenomenon in the 1970s called "The Big Event," Holocaust was an original story written by Gerald Green, who later scripted Kent State and Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, the latter another Holocaust-era tale. Holocaust narrowed the enormous story of the Nazis' systematic destruction of Jews by focusing on one family living in Berlin. Fritz Weaver plays Dr. Josef Weiss, a Pole with a longtime family practice. Weiss debates with his wife, Berta (Rosemary Harris), the wisdom of moving out of Germany with their family. She insists they should not be chased away by Hitler, and by the time she thinks otherwise, it's too late for her, her parents, Josef, and the three Weiss children: Karl (James Woods), Rudi (Joseph Bottoms), and Anna (Blanche Baker). Holocaust begins with the marriage of Karl to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian, an arrangement already frowned upon by the rising Nazi regime in 1935. In time, Karl, a harmless artist, is dragged off to the concentration camp at Buchenwald, leaving Inga vulnerable to a predatory camp officer who passes notes between the husband and wife. Poor young Anna meets a grim fate that reveals something of the way Hitler was determined to eliminate the mentally ill along with Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other groups of people. The rebellious Rudi ends up fighting the Germans from a different front, while Josef is deported to Warsaw, eventually joined by Berta. There, Holocaust details the plight of the walled-in, so-called Warsaw ghetto, and the despair of the people within. Meanwhile, the destiny of another important character, a rather effete lawyer named Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), offers a peek into the internal workings of the Holocaust machinery. Dorf takes a much-needed job as an aide to Reinhard Heydrich (David Warner), Gestapo head and chair of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of European Jews. Holocaust was criticized at the time of its broadcast for allegedly cheapening genocide by shrinking the dimensions of the Nazis' organized evil for commercial television. But as a story free to extend into different aspects of the war on Jews, Holocaust is a real eye-opener. Tom Bell, Ian Holm, Robert Stephens, and Sam Wanamaker are also featured in the cast. --Tom Keogh
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