Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4373 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-04-06
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, PAL, Subtitled
• Original language: French
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 30 minutes

Synopsis
A documentary by Alain Resnais which examines the old Nazi death camps in Europe, a place where even today there is a resurgence of anti-semitism. French dialogue.

Customer Reviews

Powerful
Even though this is a very short film it is extremely powerful. it shows the horrors of the camps that are not often mentioned by Auschwitz survivors in their books.
The film shows how women's hair was made into rolls of material, human skin into paper and bones boiled down for glue.

It also shows the nail marks on the ceiling of the gas chambers where people had tried to claw there way out. The film is not a ghoulish look at the horrors of concentration camps, rather a very important documentary that all should see. On the back of the box it notes that after a spate of anti-semitism all French television channels cut their listings on the same evening and showed this film instead.

The commentary is in French but the sub titles are in English and as I was unable to tear my eyes away from the screen anyway I didn't find this a problem at all.

Classic account of Hitler's concentration camp system
This is the classic account of Hitler's concentration camps and the appalling conditions in them. Filmed shortly after the war ended and interviewing camp inmates, etc. it is widely accepted as the best documentary on the subject ever made.