Holocaust

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Product Details

Director : Marvin J. Chomsky
Actor : Blanche Baker, Michael Beck, Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh
Format : Full Screen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097366220647
Product Group : DVD
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Studio : Paramount
UPC : 097366220647

ASIN : B00005JMLR

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Editorial Reviews

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Originally a made-for-TV miniseries (that won a slew of Emmy Awards), this film follows parallel stories: those of a Jewish family in Germany from 1935 to 1945 and a German (Michael Moriarty) who rises in the Nazi ranks until he is overseeing the death camps. Genuinely haunting and truly sorrowful, this series was many people's first introduction to the impact that Hitler's Final Solution had on everyday Germans. Of course, it helps that director Marvin Chomsky had a cast that included Fritz Weaver, James Woods, Meryl Streep (who won an Emmy for her performance), and Ian Holm. Still, it is powerful storytelling in its own right. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Pleasantly Surprised (2008-08-19)

Seeing this on TV as a teen, I was curious to view it 30 years later. I was prepared for a dated, corny, watered-down version of what occurred during that terrible time in history. I was more than pleasantly surprised! Joseph Bottoms' acting aside, the rest of the cast ran from good to stellar. There is a wonderful juxtaposition of the Weiss and Dorf families, which is unique to this story. This is subtle and grand, public and personal, and while we are horrified, it also makes us think. A relevant and worthwhile DVD to add to your collection.

"Holocaust" Sucks! (2005-04-05)

I am really interested in WWII and holocaust history and I have seen many great films about this topic, so when I first got Holocaust I couldn't wait to watch it. But boy, was this movie a dog. It was so borring and there was never any climax. The dullness went from hour to hour hoping it would pick up but never did. The best part of the movie is when I took it out of the VCR and donated it to a local library. It is beyond me how this mini-series gets such rave reviews from critics and viewers. If you want a really good movie about the holocaust watch a masterpiece like "War & Remembrance", "Schindler's List" or "The Scarlet and The Black".

Well-intentioned melodrama (2004-05-07)

This film is more important for its historical impact than either its verisimilitude or aethestic quality as drama. It is a well-intentioned melodrama that is great on making people cry and not so great on making them think very much. Not sure what to say about the scene when Meryl Streep walks up to a concentration camp gate, knocks on the gate, in order to join her husband who is a prisoner. But there is no denying the film's importance in getting people on both sides of the Atlantic to look at the event of the Holocaust.

One of the Best Films About the Holocaust (2004-01-04)

I first saw this miniseries at the age of 14. As a young, black female, I had heard only bits and pieces about the Holocaust and really didn't understand the Nazi atrocities. That all changed after watching 8 hours of this miniseries. From that moment on, I developed an overwhelming sense of empathy for Jewish people and hatred of Nazism. My own race had suffered horribly during slavery but I had never heard of nor seen anything like the cruelty of Nazi Germany.

It is now 2004. I am watching a rebroadcast of the Holocaust. After all these years, it still ellicits strong emotions from me - tears, anger and fear. Yes, fear. Fear because something like this may happen again. Fear because antisemitism is growing throughout the world. Fear because people are trying to deny the truth of the holocaust.

This miniseries gives me hope though. Hope that people will never forget and never want to be a party to such inhumanity, cruelty and horror. The strong performances, historical accuracy, and excellent writing make this miniseries not only a great piece of filmmaking but also a piece of evidence that hopefully will keep any human being from treating another like a piece of garbage.

Haunting and Sorrowful, But... (2002-06-09)

I was a kid when I saw the mini-series on TV in Italy. I remember sitting on the couch with my entire family since my mother wanted us to see what happened to the Jews during WWII in Nazi Germany. Back then, what I saw made an everlasting impression and got me hooked on everything that was Jewish. Since then, I've been reading books and watching movies and documentaries on the Children of Abraham... Anyway, after more than twenty years, I rented this TV movie to bring back the memories of the old times. The movie is moving and compelling. The only criticism that I have is that it uses the broad term Christianity when it's actually specifically referring to Catholicism; also, in a couple of scenes it looks like an apologetic portrayal of Catholicism as the last bastion against the Nazi horror, when it is common knowledge that the Catholic church had at last a dubious role in the handling of the matter of the Jews during that period. Other than that, the movie is truly poignant and well acted by the protagonists. Perhaps, the most incredible thing is how those monsters could coldly murders millions of innocent people and then go back to their families at Christmas, sing "Silent Night," and boldly proclaim to their children that they were defending the civilization of Western Europe from the threat of the Jews, the killers of Christ, like they themselves, with their folly, were not killing the spirit of Christ not one, but six million times.

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