Kapo

1960 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / War

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 84% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 2906 2.9K

concentration camp holocaust (shoah) holocaust communists

Plot summary

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Director

Gillo Pontecorvo Photo
Gillo Pontecorvo

Top cast

Susan Strasberg Photo
Susan Strasberg as Edith, alias Nicole Niepas
Sima Janicijevic Photo
Sima Janicijevic as Doctor who changes Edith's name
Dusan Perkovic Photo
Dusan Perkovic as Commandant
Rastislav Jovic Photo
Rastislav Jovic as Prisoner
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by howard.schumann 7 / 10

A realistic picture of life in a concentration camp

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 10 / 10

stuck in danger with only one way out

Gillo Pontecorvo's Academy Award-nominated "Kapò" tells the story of a young Jewish woman sent to a concentration camp where she eventually gets put in charge of other prisoners due to her fraternization with a guard. The viewer understands that young Edith (Susan Strasberg) is so terrorized by what she experiences that her desperation drives her to align herself with the oppressors. In other prisoners' cases, they kill themselves by throwing themselves against the fence.Obviously this movie isn't as hard-hitting as "Schindler's List", but it still bears watching as an indictment of fascist Italy's participation in Germany's extermination of anyone deemed the "wrong" kind of person (whether it was Jews, progressives, LGBTs, or someone else). I don't know whether or not Italy had made a notable movie focusing on the Holocaust prior to this, but this movie doesn't gloss over anything. There's even a scene where the prisoners are forced to march naked.Harrowing movie, but an excellent one. I recommend it. Also starring Laurent Terzieff and Emmanuelle Riva.
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