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17 April 1961 (Sweden) morePlot:
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp. | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins moreUser Comments:
Nuit et brouillard moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Susan Strasberg | ... | Edith, alias Nicole Niepas | |
| Laurent Terzieff | ... | Sascha | |
| Emmanuelle Riva | ... | Terese | |
| Didi Perego | ... | Sofia | |
| Gianni Garko | ... | Karl, German Soldier | |
| Annabella Besi | |||
| Graziella Galvani | |||
| Paola Pitagora | |||
| Eleonora Bellinzaghi | |||
| Bruno Scipioni | |||
| Dragomir Felba | (as Felba Dragomir) | ||
| Mira Dinulovic | |||
| Semka Sokolovic-Bertok | (as Semca Sokolic) | ||
| Dirjana Doc |
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Spain:118 min | USA:116 minLanguage:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [to Sasha] Your mother won't like me, I'm not a good girl, and my name's not Nicole, I'm a Jew. moreMovie Connections:
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Although it features two French leads (Laurent Terzieff and Emmanuelle Riva) ,"Kapo" has disappeared from the French dictionaries of films whereas lots of duds are included.
With the exceptions of "Nuit et Brouillard" (which was an exceptional documentary ) and Wanda Jakubowska 's "ostatni etap' (1947) there were few movies which at the time broached the concentration camps subject(the last scenes of Dmytryk's "young lions" ,1958)
Susan Strasberg was impressive ,mainly in the first hour though the evolution of her character is not always believable.Besides,her relationship with Sascha weakens the plot .
Emmanuelle Riva almost outshines Strasberg,maybe because she was a more experimented actress (she was featured in Resnais's "Hiroshima Mon Amour" ) and her scene when she is translating the German words in a voice chocked with emotion may be the strongest in the whole movie.
The "potato" scene is also revealing.I remember what Simone Veil ,a former French minister (secretary) (and herself a former prisoner in a concentration camp),said after watching the last episode of "Holocaust " (the seventies miniseries) : "in the camps ,people were not as helpful ,as kind ,as compassionate as they are in the film" ."Kapo" shows a very harsh world where the women are almost always fighting against their mates:that's the story of Edith /Nicole .