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Gillo Pontecorvo (writer)
Franco Solinas (writer)
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Release Date:
17 April 1961 (Sweden) more
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A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins more
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it's a MUST SEE, as long as you don't mind questioning humanity's existence more (13 total)

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Spain:118 min | USA:116 min
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Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [dying words] They screwed us over, Karl, they screwed us both over. more
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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
it's a MUST SEE, as long as you don't mind questioning humanity's existence, 2 September 2006
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Author: siddingo from United States

i'm trying to order a video of this incredible movie, & in so doing have seen the comments about it. i haven't seen this movie in about a year, but i must reply in response to the previous viewer's comments. "kapo" is the zenith of film noir, or should i say, the best of the "film nadir." it may be the darkest movie i've seen. the black & white filming certainly intensifies its starkness. when i first innocently viewed "kapo," i remember being initially surprised, then moved, then deeply disturbed. couldn't susan's choices have been any of ours born at the same wrong time, wrong place? only i may not have chosen the heroic finale that susan chose. her choices introduce that question in ourselves--would we have chosen to save others as she did? or would we have preferred to save ourselves? an eternal dilemma that cannot be answered unless we are actually put into her position--God forbid. released in 1959, 14 years after WWII was over, makes me wonder what movies will be made 14 years from now, or should i say, 14 years from when the war in iraq is over... SEE this movie.

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