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The Last Days

  • 19981998
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
4.3K
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The Last Days (1998)
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In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary,... Read allIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who ... Read allIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. Though these survivors recount the horrors they witnes... Read all

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4.3K
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  • Director
    • James Moll
  • Stars
    • Bill Basch
    • Martin Basch
    • Randolph Braham
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  • Director
    • James Moll
  • Stars
    • Bill Basch
    • Martin Basch
    • Randolph Braham
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Bill Basch
    • Self - Holocaust Survivoras Self - Holocaust Survivor
    Martin Basch
    • Self - Sonas Self - Son
    Randolph Braham
    • Self - Historian and Holocaust Survivoras Self - Historian and Holocaust Survivor
    Alice Lok Cahana
    • Self - Holocaust Survivoras Self - Holocaust Survivor
    Michael Cahana
    • Self - Sonas Self - Son
    Warren Dunn
    • Self - US Army, Dachauas Self - US Army, Dachau
    Bernard Firestone
    • Self - Husbandas Self - Husband
    Renee Firestone
    • Self - Holocaust Survivoras Self - Holocaust Survivor
    • (as Renée Firestone)
    Dario Gabbai
    • Self - Sonderkommando, Birkenauas Self - Sonderkommando, Birkenau
    Tom Lantos
    • Self - Holocaust Survivoras Self - Holocaust Survivor
    Katsugo Miho
    • Self - US Army, Dachauas Self - US Army, Dachau
    Hans Münch
    Hans Münch
    • Self - Nazi Doctor, Auschwitzas Self - Nazi Doctor, Auschwitz
    • (as Dr. Hans Münch)
    Paul Parks
    • Self - US Army, Dachauas Self - US Army, Dachau
    • (as Dr. Paul Parks)
    Irene Zisblatt
    • Self - Holocaust Survivoras Self - Holocaust Survivor
    Robin Zisblatt
    • Self - Daughteras Self - Daughter
    Karl Bodenschatz
    • Self (walks behind Hitler and Göring)as Self (walks behind Hitler and Göring)
    • (archive footage)
    • (unconfirmed)
    • (uncredited)
    Arno Breker
    • Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitleras Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Hans Frank
    Hans Frank
    • Self (listens to Hitler)as Self (listens to Hitler)
    • (archive footage)
    • (unconfirmed)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • James Moll
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    In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. Though these survivors recount the horrors they witnessed and endured as a result of the Nazis' "Final Solution," their individual triumphs are a testament to hope and humanity. —Jwelch5742
    • timeframe 1940s
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    • hungarian
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    • Genres
      • Documentary
      • War
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated PG-13 for graphic images and descriptions of Holocaust atrocities
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    • Trivia
      Hans Zimmer, the composer of the score, provided the music free of charge for the Survivors Of The Shoah Visual History Foundation.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Dr. Randolph Braham: The Holocaust has to be taught as a chapter in the long history of man's inhumanity to man. One cannot ignore the discrimination inflicted on many people because of race color or creed. One cannot ignore slavery. One cannot ignore the burning of witches. One cannot ignore the killing Christians during the Roman period. The Holocaust perhaps is the culmination of the kind of horror that can occur when man loses his integrity, his belief in the sanctity of human life.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Never Been Kissed/Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane/Metroland/Go/The Last Days (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Czardas Princess Highlights Overture
      Written by Emmerich Kálmán (as Emmerich Kalman)

      (c)1957 Vox Productions Inc., New York

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    8/10
    Budapest Holocaust
    My wife has an abiding interest in the history of the holocaust and brought this documentary to my attention, although it was made over twenty years ago. This is the story of the largely successful attempt at annihilation by the Nazis of the Hungarian Jewish population in 1944. That date of course is significant as anyone with a basic knowledge of World War 2 would surely know that by that time Germany was clearly losing the war on many fronts and moreover its own High Command knew it. But as the testators here make clear, for Hitler it seemed the war had two aims, the first the military domination of Europe but the second, less credited, being the extinction of the Jewish race. He proved arguably more successful at the latter, sad to say. Rather than divert resources into fighting the Allied Forces on the battlefield, the Fuhrer insanely remained committed to his other vision of racial extermination.

    The story is movingly told from the viewpoints of a number of now elderly men and women still alive at the time of filming, all of them survivors of Auschwitz, Birkenald, Bergen-Belsen and other death camps. I refuse to let myself be emotionally fatigued by these horrific eye-witness testimonies of the atrocities carried out daily by their then German masters, no matter how often I see and hear them, all graphically illustrated by contemporary photography and verite footage which even so can only hint at the daily atrocities perpetrated on the prisoners.

    We learn that the non-Jewish Hungarian public turned on their fellow citizens immediately the Germans invaded, siding with the occupying Nazis. There is also a chilling interview with an aged Auschwitz doctor who I wouldn't trust an inch as he baldly announces that he was acquitted of war crimes but who today exhibits no emotion or apparent regret for what was perpetrated in the camp, even when confronted by the sister of just one of the thousands who were killed on his watch.

    The film, co-produced by Steven Spielberg, tells its horrendous story from its calm, pre-occupation beginning to its barbarous conclusion, ending up with a number of the survivors returning to the scenes of their worst nightmares, equally demonstrating their indomitable survival instinct coupled with a haunted sense of never-ending loss for their loved ones. Tellingly, none are asked their opinions about the German people although I was surprised, confirmed atheist that I am, that so many of them exonerated their God who had seemingly remotely and uncaringly presided over this ultimate example of inhumanity by his own creation.

    It has always to be remembered, in addition, that this awful slaughter occurred in other countries the Germans invaded, as well as to think that, unbelievably and shamefully, there are Holocaust deniers out there who would refute what is so heartbreakingly and convincingly related here. As other recent commenters have said, they look to be in the majority here or perhaps are bringing some latter-day political agenda of their own to disrespect the honesty of this film.
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    • Release date
      • July 15, 1999 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Hungarian
    • Also known as
      • 消失的1945
    • Production companies
      • Ken Lipper/June Beallor production
      • Shoah Foundation
      • Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $421,432
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $20,492
      • Feb 7, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $421,432
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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