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Very good, if not XLNT. About a Jewish mobster who was a good counterfeiter, who is captured by the Nazis crime unit, and after a short time in a concentration camp, is given the job of portrait painting the Nazi officers. His food and living conditions increase notably, and right about at the part where I went to sleep they were going to ask him to make American dollars. VERY HOT woman that he sketches naked in the beginning, BTW, right as he gets arrested.
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Karl Markovics is very very good in this.
I saw an interview with Markovics and the Director, Stefan Ruzowitzky and they gave an interesting talk on the making of the film and of the very dark World War 2 family history of Ruzowitzky.
J.B.
admitted that, outside of the fact there were counterfeiters, the lives of these characters were different: nothing noble about any of there actions.
film that is a dramatization of a real event.
Even if what you are saying is true it doesn't take away from the fact that this is a very good film that touches on issues that are mucho important in the human scheme of things.
J.B.
being deprived of ALL their human rights.
More Israeli propaganda masquerading as drama.
Who benefits from the yearly onslaught of Holocaust dramas?
Hell, it's become a genre for pity's sake.
Enough, already.
We won't forget because, today, genocide is occurring all over the globe.
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You've completely missed the points this film raises, the Holocaust is but a back drop and the camp a stage for the questions asked and in some cases answered by this film.
Mainly, what would YOU do to survive? Would you trade the lives of those around you and those of your people for another day of life? How far would you be willing to aid those intent on anailating you and yours for the promise that you (might) survive?
What is the nature of loyalty and living as an honourable human being in the face of immense personal/group suffering?
I'll leave you to work out the rest of the film for yourself.
J.B.
history so terrible.
Yes, family members will do all sorts of evil things to each other to survive.
But that knowledge is hardly unique to the Holocaust, is it?
You, I assume, have a smattering of information about the terror reigns of Mao and Stalin?
Sons turning in parents, parents informing on their children?
Enough of the Holocaust as a sidedrop, backdrop, or topdrop.
Jews WERE victims. Now, they're victimizers.
It's hard to feel ANY empathy towards folks doing their best to exterminate another people.
I empathize with th Palestinians. I am Jewish. Their treatment is despicable.
This is the film forum.
And yes, I too have gone OT NUMEROUS TIMES here.
NT
either, because I don't like torture films. I also don't like terminal disease/serious injury films.
My problem with the latter type, to pick just one, is that it's impossible NOT to feel pity for a quadraplegic, brain-damaged, AIDs-ravaged, or otherwise deeply injured or ill person.
What more is there to say that can be original enough to overcome these conditions? Nothing.
The only course open is to show brave human forebearance attempting to overcome.
There's a word for that and it's melodrama.
I like some melodrama but not of that sort.
You may watch "Rainman" and all the other similar films. I find them boring, trite, and self-serving.
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that hardly is my concern.
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I ain't the man I used to be.
I don't think I ever was.
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