Friday, February 26, 2010

Holocaust (1978) (TV)

It follows the trajectory of the members of a family of German Jews during the Nazi era.

It might be an oversimplification to say that, while Cinema is literature dumbed-down, Television is Cinema dumbed-down. But often that is the case. Holocaust has some OK parts, some awful ones, and is excellent on only one item. The awful parts are practically everything related to characters Karl and Inga; the excellent aspect is Fritz Weaver's performance; I guess most everything else is OK.

It seems that the version that I saw on TV is a somewhat shortened one (a couple of sequences missing, like Heydrich's death).

Rating: 53

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