This mini series can be found at some video stores and libraries. My boyfriend brought it home out of the blue thinking I might like it. He was right. Superbly made movie on one of the darkest times in History. 3 tapes with 2.5 hours on each for a total of 7.5 hours but each tape seems to go by so fast this drama is so well filmed and interesting. Its hard to push the Stop button. I've read Holocaust survivors mention this film and have commented on its accuracy and even though I wasn't a victim of it, everything in the movie seemed so real and life like. Very well planned and its obvious alot of research was done to mimic was actually happened as close as possible, down to the sharp SS uniforms and jew clothing, the start of anti-semitism, some historical facts, border crossings, train transports, concentration camp and labor camp life and hardships.
A wonderful breakthrough chilling performance by Michael Moriarty who plays the good Aryan lawyer boy "Dorf" turned bad when he joins the SS. We see this family man with 2 children evolve into a vicious monster.
The story of the Weiss family is followed. Dr Weiss, his wife and 3 children (Rudy,Karl and Anna)and how they struggle to survive as their family is torn apart and lives changed forever as a result of the Third Reich.
Wonderful early performances by Meryl Streep and James Woods. Woods plays Jewish Karl Weiss married to a beautiful Christian woman Inga played by Meryl Streep. Inga has to witness her husband and his whole family being taken away from her and hauled off to camps.
Nothing is sugar coated here. Some scenes such as beatings and executions are very hard to watch. There appears to be actual archive footage of disturbing photographs that the SS guards watch as slide shows.
By far one of the best movies on the Holocaust. Highly recommended. I believe it won 8 much deserved Emmy awards.
I rarely give a perfect 10 but this case I'll make an exception.
10/10.
A wonderful breakthrough chilling performance by Michael Moriarty who plays the good Aryan lawyer boy "Dorf" turned bad when he joins the SS. We see this family man with 2 children evolve into a vicious monster.
The story of the Weiss family is followed. Dr Weiss, his wife and 3 children (Rudy,Karl and Anna)and how they struggle to survive as their family is torn apart and lives changed forever as a result of the Third Reich.
Wonderful early performances by Meryl Streep and James Woods. Woods plays Jewish Karl Weiss married to a beautiful Christian woman Inga played by Meryl Streep. Inga has to witness her husband and his whole family being taken away from her and hauled off to camps.
Nothing is sugar coated here. Some scenes such as beatings and executions are very hard to watch. There appears to be actual archive footage of disturbing photographs that the SS guards watch as slide shows.
By far one of the best movies on the Holocaust. Highly recommended. I believe it won 8 much deserved Emmy awards.
I rarely give a perfect 10 but this case I'll make an exception.
10/10.