War / Holocaust Films - 3-DVD Set ( The Grey Zone / Varian's War / Out Of the Ashes )

War / Holocaust Films - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Grey Zone / Varian's War / Out Of the Ashes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
327 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2001-2003 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tim Blake Nelson
Lionel Chetwynd
Joseph Sargent

Written By:
Tim Blake Nelson
Miklos Nyiszli
Lionel Chetwynd
Gisella Perl
Anne Meredith

Actors:
David Arquette ..... Hoffman
Velizar Binev ..... Moll
David Chandler ..... Rosenthal
Michael Stuhlbarg ..... Cohen
George Zlatarev ..... Lowy (as Georgy Zlatarev)
Dimitar Ivanov ..... Old Man
Daniel Benzali ..... Schlermer
Allan Corduner ..... Doctor Miklos Nyiszli
Steve Buscemi ..... 'Hesch' Abramowics
Harvey Keitel ..... SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
Henry Stram ..... SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele
Kamelia Grigorova ..... Girl
Lisa Benavides ..... Anja
Shirly Brener ..... Inmate
Mira Sorvino ..... Dina
William Hurt ..... Varian Fry
Julia Ormond ..... Miriam Davenport
Matt Craven ..... Beamish
Maury Chaykin ..... Marcello
Alan Arkin ..... Freier
Lynn Redgrave ..... Alma Werfel-Mahler
Rémy Girard ..... Colonel Joubert
Christopher Heyerdahl ..... Marius Franken
Gloria Carlin ..... Bella Chagall
Joel Miller ..... Marc Chagall
Vlasta Vrana ..... Franz Werfel
John Dunn-Hill ..... Heinrich Mann
Ted Whittall ..... Harry Bingham
Dorothée Berryman ..... Mme Fanny
Howard Ryshpan ..... Konditorei Owner
Christine Lahti ..... Gisella Perl
Beau Bridges ..... Herman Prentiss
Richard Crenna ..... Jake Smith
Bruce Davison ..... Peter Schuman
Jonathan Cake ..... Dr. Mengele
Jolyon Baker ..... Frederick Krauss
Jessica Beitchman ..... Marta Weiss
Oliver Cotton ..... Moshe Perl
Michelle Fine ..... Fanny Perl
Zoie Palmer ..... Didi Goldstein
Maria Ricossa ..... Esther Jacob
Ingrid Veninger ..... Zozia
Emma Wellbelove ..... Young Gisella
Nina Young ..... Irma Griese
Vytautas Rumsas ..... David Perl

Synopsis:

The Grey Zone (2002)
Based on real-life events, this compelling and harrowing film chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. Directed by Tim Blake Nelson.

Varian's War (2001)
The fact-based story of the man known as 'America's Schindler', Varian Fry, who helped more than 2,000 Jews, including many well-known artists and writers, escape from France during the Holocaust. Directed by Lionel Chetwynd.

Out of the Ashes (2003)
A Jewish Hungarian doctor is accused of collaborating with the Nazis at Auschwitz. Directed by Joseph Sargent.

The Grey Zone (2002)

Writer-director-actor Tim Blake Nelson presents THE GREY ZONE, a relentlessly bleak drama that uses one of history's most incomprehensible calamities to address the ultimate question of human survival. Based in large part on Miklos Nyiszli's book, AUSCHWITZ: A DOCTOR'S EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT, THE GREY ZONE is set in the nightmarish world of Auschwitz in the 1940s. The film tells the brutal tale of the twelfth Sonderkommando unit, Jewish prisoners who were granted a few extra months of life in return for their services in helping with the genocide of their people. While organizing a revolt against the Nazis, a group of Sonderkommandos (played with ferocious intensity by David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, David Chandler, and Steve Buscemi) discover a young girl who has somehow managed to survive the gas chamber. Risking their lives, they team up with a fellow Jew, Doctor Nyiszli (Allan Corduner), to revive the fragile youngster and redeem themselves in the process. Nelson's excruciating drama is all the more unsettling for its unflinching honesty. By placing his characters in a world suffused with death, he creates an unbearable scenario where every decision determines the fate of dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent lives. THE GREY ZONE also features deeply impassioned performances by Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Natasha Lyonne.

Varian's War (2001)

After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France.

Out of the Ashes (2003)

Christine Lahti stars in this harrowing made-for-cable film based on the real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II. Perl's story is told in flashback as she sits before an immigration panel in the U.S. seeking American citizenship after the war. Facing her inquisitors' accusations of collaborating with the Nazis because of her work as camp doctor, Perl is forced to relive her horrifying experiences and the difficult moral choices she had to make in order to survive. Features supporting turns from Bruce Davison, Richard Crenna, and Beau Bridges as Lahti's INS interrogators.

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