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Auschwitz (DVD) (*)

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

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
71 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Uwe Boll

Written By:
Uwe Boll

Actors:
Maximilian Gärtner ..... Young Boy
Friedhelm Gärtner ..... Boy's Father
Uwe Boll ..... Gas Chamber Guard
Avner Aizendorf ..... Nazi SS Lieutenant
Arved Birnbaum ..... Dentist Prisonner
Nik Goldman ..... Oven prisonner
Harold Levy
Steffen Mennekes
Alexis Wawerka

Synopsis:

Echoing the sentiments of Schindler's List, Auschwitz is a hard-hitting but respectful war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp. Including documentary footage, controversial German director Uwe Boll (Rampage, Darfur) says "50% of the German population doesn't know anything about the Holocaust. When I realized that there were many people who deny the Holocaust, or who had a distorted point of view about it, I decided to make this movie and get straight to the point, without any metaphors."

Auschwitz begins with Uwe Boll addressing the camera, telling us why he has decided to make the film. He gives three main reasons : because he believes that films that dealt with the Holocaust have not properly communicated its horrors, because young people today (with special emphasis on Germans) are ignorant of what occurred and because we need to be reminded that genocides are still taking place. The first section of the film proper involves Boll (off camera) interviewing high-school students. He asks them what they know about the Holocaust and about the Germany of the 1940s. It is a clever device, implicating us as questioners, responders and analysers of both. What would we have done in the Germans' shoes? Laid out in front of us, too, is the primary reason and spur for the dramatisation that follows: the film is made for these young men and women who have, at best, a sketchy understanding.

A German film director best known for his adaptations of bloody video games has sparked widespread revulsion with his upcoming film about the horrors of the Holocaust. Uwe Boll, who has been described as the world's worst film director and a "schlockmeister", said he felt it was time to present the Nazis' crimes in their "full horror" in his film Auschwitz. His aim, he said, was to allow audiences to finally grasp the "real, everyday truth" of the Third Reich's atrocities. Some critics have already vowed to boycott the film, having seen a gruesome teaser trailer - users must prove they are 18 before watching the clip on YouTube but even for adults it makes very grim viewing.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 09 September, 2012.

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