The extermination of the Jews by the Nazi regime has been widely covered in cinematography for decades. Here is a selection of 10 films with which to understand the genocide from many different angles.
1985, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary of more than 10 hours in which the oral and filmed story predominates over several years and in different countries. Shoah means catastrophe in Hebrew and all the people who participate in the film recount what their reality was during the Holocaust years. It gathers first-person testimonies from those who were victims and also from the executioners during the years of World War II.
2015, László Nemes
Shocking film that tells the life of a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, a sonderkommando in charge of burning the bodies of his own companions in the crematorium.
1997, Roberto Benigni
Film for which the Italian Benigni ended up high at the Oscars and acclaimed in the United States. In the film, a Jewish father does the impossible to get his son away from the reality of a concentration camp.
2002, Costa Gavras
How were relations between the Holy See and the German Reich? Based on the play El vicar, by Rolf Hochhuth, the film narrates the complicity that allowed many Nazi leaders to escape to Latin America.
1993, Steven Spielberg
Based on Thomas Kenneally's book Schindler's Ark, it recovers the true story of Oskar Schlinder, who managed to save more than a thousand Jews from perishing in concentration camps by buying them with his own fortune, until he went bankrupt.
2002, Roman Polanski
Adaptation of the memoirs of the musician of Jewish origin Wadysaw Szpilman, The Pianist of the Warsaw Ghetto, tells how the protagonist survived the Holocaust and the occupation of Warsaw by Nazi Germany in 1939.
2008, Mark Herman
Based on the novel of the same name and directed by Mark Herman, the film describes the Holocaust through the eyes of a child
2001, Frank Pierson
American film that recreates the Wannsee conference on January 20, 1942, where the 'final solution' against the Jewish people was forged. The Wannsee protocol, which appeared in the offices of the Reich Foreign Office, is the only document in which the details of Hitler's plan were codified.
1964, Sidney Lumet
The script is based on the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant and was the first American film to deal with the Holocaust from the point of view of a survivor.
1982, Alan J. Pakula
Stingo, a young aspiring writer, settles in a family boarding house in Brooklyn where he meets his neighbor Sophie, the daughter of a distinguished Polish professor, who survived the Auschwitz death camp, and who lives tormented by her past.
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