Need help plez. . .
I stayed up till after 3 last nite watching this movie. I fell asleep about 3:30. Now I don't know how it ended and I don't think tcm is going to play it again. Can anyone tell me how it ended? Spoilers okay.
shareYou're in luck, I happened to catch the end of it last night msyelf. I don't know how much of it you remember, but they were planning to escape, Nicole (Edith) was to cut the power to the gate so they could escape and they found out a siren would blow immediately so she would be killed instantly. Sasha didn't want it to happen, so another man offered to do it instead, Sasha didn't tell Nicole until the very end, but she still did it. As soon as the siren blew, all the prisoners were running, most of them were killed by the guards in the watchtowers, but some managed to escape, the men in the watchtowers were shot by a couple of the men down below. Karl and another soldier opened up the main room where the power was cut off, and Nicole falls out, dying. Her dying words to Karl are "They screwed us over, Karl, they screwed us both over". Sasha has (I'm guessing) gone insane by the carnage, and he's stumbling around the grave they were all digging and he's looking around at all the corpses of the people who tried to escape, and he's just screaming, and that's where the film ends.
shareThere is another piece of the ending that is important. As she dies, she asks Karl to rip off the Nazi insignia on her uniform. As he does, she begins to recite the Jewish prayer 'Shma Yisroel'(Hear O'Israel), the affirmation of her Judaism. Remember that she was stripped of her Judaism in the beginning of the movie. Now, as she lay awaiting death, she returns to what she was. How much had her personality really changed?
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The changes this girl undergoes in the movie make it so awesome - I mean I have never seen a movie dealing with holocaust stuff and death camps that I watched for more than ten minutes. I have to say I don't think this movie could be made today because of the way the Jewish girl betrayed her faith and countrymen to survive and because it showed some of the German guys as being realistically humans instead of Hollywood Nazis. I mean you wouldn't mind playing cards with these guys and yet here they are running a death camp like a gas station. It's really hard subject matter and also the ending, which left my jaw on the floor, would never fly on a commercial flick. All told one of the best dramas I've ever seen.
share"I have to say I don't think this movie could be made today because of the way the Jewish girl betrayed her faith and countrymen to survive and because it showed some of the German guys as being realistically humans instead of Hollywood Nazis."
Are we *really* so choked by the grasp of political correctness that it would now be forbidden to show a jewish girl hiding her faith? (a jewish girl who HAPPENS to be in a Nazi work camp?)
Please say it isnt so!