Ok, so is this the first film to deal with the holocaust that isnt a documentry? I am hard pressed to come up with another. The Great Dictator was about Germany's antisemitsm, but I don't think they knew what was going on the the camps.
Any help?
Dictated, but not read.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040674/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168626/
Thanks, not much chance of seeing either unfortunately
Dictated, but not read.
Despite IMDB's listing to the contrary (and the often invisible nature of some of their releases), Facets has released Distant Journey, and are planning to release The Last Stage in January. The quality could be questionable, considering how terrible many of their dvds have been. Afraid I've only seen them in 35mm, so I can't really tell you the quality of the transfer of the latter, but they're certainly available.
And I forgot another one, made in Hollywood during the war none the less: André De Toth's None Shall Escape
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037136/
This one is, however, much harder to find, and I'm still kicking myself for overlooking a recent TCM screening.
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I believe this is the case. I heard an interview with Sidney Lumet and he confirmed this for the interviewer.
shareThere is Pontecorvo's Kapò (1960) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052961. There was a Criterion Art House release a few years back.
shareKapò indeed predates TP. I can't imagine what Lumet was thinking.
shareI did not see the Lumet interview, but as Kapo and the other films are European productions, perhaps he meant Pawnbroker was the first major American film to depict, however mildly, aspects of the Holocaust.
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FYI, there's a documentary called Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, which deals with this very topic. I saw it on TCM recently.
shareOf course not... there are several European films from the 1950's.
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