Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaOrson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe t... Leggi tuttoOrson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.
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Elizabeth Taylor
- Narrator
- (voce)
Orson Welles
- Narrator
- (voce)
Neville Chamberlain
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Winston Churchill
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Joseph Goebbels
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
- (as Josef Goebbels)
Hermann Göring
- Self - at Nuremberg Trials
- (filmato d'archivio)
Rudolf Hess
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Heinrich Himmler
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Ralph Metcalfe
- Self - in 100m Final at the 1936 Olympics
- (filmato d'archivio)
Martinus Osendarp
- Self - in 100m Final at the 1936 Olympics
- (filmato d'archivio)
Jesse Owens
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
Pope Pius XII
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
- (as The Pope)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- (filmato d'archivio)
- (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Self - at Nuremberg Trials
- (filmato d'archivio)
Erich Borchmeyer
- Self - in 100m Final at the 1936 Olympics
- (filmato d'archivio)
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- QuizElizabeth Taylor was so upset by the experience of narrating this film, she said it gave her nightmares. She cried so much during the first recording session, she required an extra day to complete her narration.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The 54th Annual Academy Awards (1982)
Recensione in evidenza
I gave this documentary a "10" because in my opinion there is no reason whatsoever for it to receive anything less. Along with the footage we have all pretty much come to expect (concentration camp survivors, footage of Hitler orating, and so on,) there are the wonderful narrations by Welles and Taylor.
I admit it has some flaws- Goering never made the "When I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my gun" remark, and the idea that Hitler was furious at the outcome of the 1936 Olympic Games (and refused to shake Jesse Owens's hand for racial reasons) have long been known to be false. Still, I think the rest of the material more than makes up for these minor gaffes.
The film gives us quite a lot of background of the conditions in which European Jews lived prior to the Hitlerian horror. We see life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, where the 1,000 year-old Ashkenazic culture still existed and where the "old ways" were honored; we also are reminded of how Jews had been fully assimilated into the cultures of Western Europe (particularly Germany, which interestingly enough had the most thoroughly mixed culture of all mainland European nations and among the highest educational standards in the world prior to Nazism,) and of their great contributions to science, literature, and the arts.
And it was all destroyed in a mere 12 years' time by legislation, the gun and the death camp. In a truly unsettling scene, we see Jews being shot to death in a pit by members of the Einsatzgruppen while the romantic song "Lili Marlene" (a favorite of German soldiers) plays and is sung slowly and softly in the background. This reminded me of the fact that one of Nazism's hallmarks was its insistence upon juxtaposing sentimental culture with indescribable brutality.
By 1945 the Ashkenazic civilization was a memory; it literally went up in smoke and ashes at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec and Treblinka, among other places.
I admit it has some flaws- Goering never made the "When I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my gun" remark, and the idea that Hitler was furious at the outcome of the 1936 Olympic Games (and refused to shake Jesse Owens's hand for racial reasons) have long been known to be false. Still, I think the rest of the material more than makes up for these minor gaffes.
The film gives us quite a lot of background of the conditions in which European Jews lived prior to the Hitlerian horror. We see life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, where the 1,000 year-old Ashkenazic culture still existed and where the "old ways" were honored; we also are reminded of how Jews had been fully assimilated into the cultures of Western Europe (particularly Germany, which interestingly enough had the most thoroughly mixed culture of all mainland European nations and among the highest educational standards in the world prior to Nazism,) and of their great contributions to science, literature, and the arts.
And it was all destroyed in a mere 12 years' time by legislation, the gun and the death camp. In a truly unsettling scene, we see Jews being shot to death in a pit by members of the Einsatzgruppen while the romantic song "Lili Marlene" (a favorite of German soldiers) plays and is sung slowly and softly in the background. This reminded me of the fact that one of Nazism's hallmarks was its insistence upon juxtaposing sentimental culture with indescribable brutality.
By 1945 the Ashkenazic civilization was a memory; it literally went up in smoke and ashes at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec and Treblinka, among other places.
- Jordan_Haelend
- 23 mag 2005
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