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A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total
Dragomir Felba
- Salomon Lejtman
- (as Felba Dragomir)
Semka Sokolovic-Bertok
- Prisoner
- (as Semca Sokolovic)
Dirjana Dojic
- Ninette
- (as Dirjana Dojc)
Graziella Durano
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Sima Janicijevic
- Doctor who changes Edith's name
- (uncredited)
Rastislav Jovic
- Yanko Milovich
- (uncredited)
Dusan Perkovic
- Commandant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGillo Pontecorvo's favorite of his own movies.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, Edith walks past some shops on her way back home. One of the shops look like it belongs to the booming 1950s than the more austere WWII period. There is a toy car or baby push car in the store window that shows the typical car design of the 1950s.
- Quotes
Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [to Sasha] Your mother won't like me, I'm not a good girl, and my name's not Nicole, I'm a Jew.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992)
Featured review
Excellent Character Study of Lost Innocence
Quite an excellent character study of what people will do to survive. Although not as powerful as other prisoner of war films such as "Seven Beauties" it stands out because of the performances of all the women and especially Susan Strasberg who does a magnificent job starting out as the young innocent girl, hiding the fact that she is Jewish, a bewildering task, and her agonizing evolution into a hardened guard.
Don't look for huge sets and gruesome scenes of gas chambers and ovens here. It's not that type of film. It's a simple story of the slow chipping away of humanity that dire conditions force. Dignity and nobility give way to cruelty and inhumanity and simple survival becomes a thing to justify as time goes on. By telling this type of story through the eyes of a young impressionable person is excellent.
Don't look for huge sets and gruesome scenes of gas chambers and ovens here. It's not that type of film. It's a simple story of the slow chipping away of humanity that dire conditions force. Dignity and nobility give way to cruelty and inhumanity and simple survival becomes a thing to justify as time goes on. By telling this type of story through the eyes of a young impressionable person is excellent.
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- DumaNV
- Feb 4, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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