Naked Among Wolves

2015 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / History / War

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 4343 4.3K

nazi germany concentration camp holocaust (shoah) world war ii kz buchenwald

Plot summary

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

Director

Philipp Kadelbach Photo
Philipp Kadelbach

Top cast

Sabin Tambrea Photo
Sabin Tambrea as Hermann Reineboth
Paula Hartmann Photo
Paula Hartmann as Pippigs Sister
Thorsten Merten Photo
Thorsten Merten as Hans Bochow
Peter Schneider Photo
Peter Schneider as André Höfel
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866.19 MB
1280*714
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
25 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 1
1.63 GB
1920*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
25 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dlorahhunt-12765 8 / 10

The film was fine but it didn't scratch the surface of Buchenwald

I first heard about Buchenwald before I started kindergarten. My parents were talking in the living room late at night and they didn't realize I was in the hallway listening. My uncle was the Army photographer (in the Signal Corps) who accompanied the troops as they liberated Buchenwald. This film, for all of it's merits, seems like a whitewash. It didn't even scratch the surface of the horrors of Buchenwald. When the troops arrived there were human beings, still alive though just skin and bones, stacked like cordwood (i.e. layer upon layer of human beings, stacked in alternating directions). Not just one stack, there were many, many stacks lined up and prepared to be moved into the ovens. When he visited the home of the camp commander he photographed lamps with shades made from human skin, skin with tattoos. My father spoke of drums using human skin. There were other things. These images have polluted my mind from my youngest years. I barely knew what tattoos were...only because of Popeye the Sailor man, and when the drums were mentioned, I had the image of bongo drums because I heard these things in '61 or'62 and bongo drums were all the rage. I remember these things though I just heard them once. My uncle's photographs are in the Library of Congress. He never took another photograph in his life, never smiled, never visited the mountains, never visited the snow, and never spoke of what he had witnessed except once in 1961 or '62 in a special meeting with his father, his brothers, and his brother in law. The film is a good story, but the scenes of the camp and the prisoners seem like a Sunday picnic versus the reality. It felt more like history was being covered up than illuminated by this film.
Reviewed by s3276169 10 / 10

A desperate variety of hope.....

This is different from many of the other films about the fate of those condemned to concentration camps during WWII. Its not because what happens is essentially different but because this film injects a "desperate variety of hope". That tiny glimmer of hope is a small boy the prisoners try to shield and save when they themselves, are divested of all protection, save their own courage.For the viewer that hope creates a thread of tension and emotion as you hold you breath hoping the boy and his would be saviours survive, whilst knowing the odds are hugely stacked against them.This is an excellent production and, as I found out later, its based on fact, with a degree of dramatic license taken. I think the decisions made around the adapted story work extremely well, adding to the sense of shared altruism, of people who decide to make one noble decision. 10/10 from me.
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