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 UNFORGETTABLE I FIRST SAW THIS TV SERIES WHEN I WAS LEAVING THE HIGH SCHOOL AND NEVER FORGOT IT. PLEASE I ONLY WANT TO KNOW IF IT IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO ORDER THIS DVD SUBTITLED IN SPANISH OR PORTUGUESE. MY RELATIVES ARE NOT ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND THEY LOVED THIS SERIES WHEN THEY WATCHED IT IN VENEZUELA IN 1980. THANKS A LOT. Re Holocaust It verry good this will come on DVD, I remember when I see this film on television, in that time I was not so old, so now it will be intresting to see this dvd when I`m older. Excellent Mini-Series "Holocaust" Excellent Mini-Series Amos Lassen Produced for television in 1978, "Holocaust" has just been released on DVD and it is about time. I was living in Israel when it was first aired on TV and there were complaints that it was not strong enough for Israeli audiences as many had lived through the horrible period or knew someone who did. Looking at it again, I tend to agree but for the time it was made it was important. Today it seems a bit dated and there have been many documentaries in the last thirty years that gave us more horrible pictures to see and they provide a more graphic insight into the darkest period of the history of our world. Nevertheless, "Holocaust" puts a human face on the period and has a brilliant cast--Meryl Streep, James Woods, Ian Holm, Sam Wanamaker, and Fritz Weaver. "Holocaust" follows the Weiss family and shows how each member of the family dealt with the way each coped with the changing anti-Semitism in Germany and their suffering until the war was over. Erik Dorf also appears in the series--he is a German who was headed for a legal career when he decided to join the Nazi party and moved through the ranks to be one of the staunchest supporters of the final solution. Michael Moriarity is Dorf and he plays his part as the personification of evil. Even though he never actually killed anyone, he was responsible for giving the order to do so and he watched the murders. As the episodes changed so did he and watching that was an unforgettable experience. The stories are familiar and we have heard them many times but we have not actually seen them from a human perspective. It is a thorough examination of what happened to the Jews of central and eastern Europe and it does not focus on just one camp or one area. We see Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresinstadt, Sobibor and we hear of Maidenek, Dachau, Babi Yar and the Warsaw Ghetto. We also see how the Germans mastered the ways of killing and we hear why. We see the way "defectives" were maltreated. It is the sheer scope of the series that makes it so interesting and fantastic and "Holocaust" stands as one of the finest mini-series ever made and it still is a symbol of excellence for others to strive for. Best fictional Holocaust movie ever made I am so happy this is finally being released on DVD after having been forgotten for so many years. Not only does this movie have some fine actors/actresses (James Woods, Merryl Streep, and more)but it is the most realistic, historically accurate depiction of the events that transpired in Germany and Europe. Two families (1 Jewish, 1 German) are followed from the mid-1930's until after Worl War 2. Historical events are made especially personal by depicting how events affected one middle class Jewish family who chose to remain in Berlin after a multitude of Jews had fled. The events surrounding Krystallnacht, Nazi invasion of Poland, Babi Yar, Nazi euthanasia of the mentally ill, Auschwitz, Warsaw Gheto uprising, and Germany's defeat are all well depicted here. Society here is a microcosm showing all the feelings, events and angles of the Holocaust: Jews who thought the country of Beethoven and Shiller were incapable of inhumanity, Unemployed Germans seeking livelihood who were transformed into evil monsters, drastically changed attitudes of germans towards the Jews as nazism trimuphed, complicity of Jews who collaborated, devoted German war enthusiasts appalled at learning how Jews were treated,and the anti-semitism taht ran rampant within the Polish underground. This movie also sheds light on that perennial misguided question asked over and over: Why did the Jews allow themselves to be led like sheep to the slaughter? This movie shows how the Holocaust occurred in gradual stages and how Many German Jews especially were the most patriotic and asimilated of all Jews. A must-see for any Holocaust scholar or ordinary American wanting to understand how it all happened. | |||||||||||||
