David Hare’s screenplay (based on Bernhard Schlink’s book) shifts audiences from a young German boy’s (David Kross) sexual initiation with an older woman (Kate Winslet) to his encounter with her a decade later at a war crimes trial where she appears as one of the defendants. Brilliant performances are directed by Stephen Daldry and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Holocaust'
The Reader
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Defiance
January 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Liev Schreiber and Daniel Craig are a dynamic duo, playing the oldest Bielski brothers, Zus and Tuvia , who despite their philosophical differences worked together to save close to 1200 Jews from extermination by providing save harbor in the forest outside of Poland. Director, co-writer Edward Zwick presents power packed realism, interspersed [...]
Tags: Documentary · Holocaust · history · war
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of a Nazi commandant (David Thewlis) befriends a young boy named Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) who happens to live nearby, behind a barbed wire fence (concentration camp). The film, based upon the compelling fable by Irish writer John Boyne, is so superbly directed (Mark Herman), acted (provided you get past British [...]
The Counterfeiters
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Writer/director, Stefan Ruzouwitzky masterfully crafts Adolf Burger’s book for the big screen in the Austrian Oscar winner. Ruzouwitzky avoids stereotypes in his portrayal of a group of Jews assigned to an elite division in Sachsenhausen to produce bankable English pound notes to finance the failing German war effort. Karl Markovics, [...]
Tags: Foreign Language · Holocaust · Relationships · drama · war