Holocaust - 2-Disc Set

Holocaust - 2-Disc Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
415 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Alternative Footage
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Marvin J. Chomsky

Written By:
Gerald Green

Actors:
Joseph Bottoms ..... Rudi Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
Tovah Feldshuh ..... Helena Slomova (4 episodes, 1978)
Rosemary Harris ..... Berta Palitz Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
Tony Haygarth ..... Heinz Muller (4 episodes, 1978)
Michael Moriarty ..... Erik Dorf (4 episodes, 1978)
Deborah Norton ..... Marta Dorf (4 episodes, 1978)
George Rose ..... Franz Lowy / ... (4 episodes, 1978)
Robert Stephens ..... Uncle Kurt Dorf (4 episodes, 1978)
Sam Wanamaker ..... Moses Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
David Warner ..... Heydrich / ... (4 episodes, 1978)
Fritz Weaver ..... Dr. Josef Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
James Woods ..... Karl Weiss (4 episodes, 1978)
Charles Korvin ..... Dr. Kohn (4 episodes, 1978)
Stanley Lebor ..... Zalman (4 episodes, 1978)
Käte Jaenicke ..... Frau Lowy (4 episodes, 1978)
Tom Bell ..... Adolf Eichmann (3 episodes, 1978)
Meryl Streep ..... Inga Helms Weiss (3 episodes, 1978)
John Bailey ..... Hans Frank (3 episodes, 1978)
Michael Beck ..... Hans Helms (3 episodes, 1978)
T.P. McKenna ..... Blobel (3 episodes, 1978)
Cyril Shaps ..... Weinberg (3 episodes, 1978)
Ian Holm ..... Heinrich Himmler (2 episodes, 1978)
Lee Montague ..... Uncle Sasha (2 episodes, 1978)
Isolde Barth ..... Eva (2 episodes, 1978)
Vernon Dobtcheff ..... Karp (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Garell ..... Yuri (2 episodes, 1978)
Werner Kreindl ..... Herr Helms (2 episodes, 1978)
Martin Brandt ..... Rabbi Karsh (2 episodes, 1978)
Edward Gilkrist ..... Peter Dorf - teen (2 episodes, 1978)
Courtney Hill ..... Laura Dorf - teen (2 episodes, 1978)
Nina Sandt ..... Frau Helms (2 episodes, 1978)
Blanche Baker ..... Anna Weiss (2 episodes, 1978)
Götz von Langheim ..... Berlin Doctor (2 episodes, 1978)
Jeremy Levy ..... Aaron Feldman (2 episodes, 1978)
Miriam Mahler ..... Woman with Infant (2 episodes, 1978)
Walter Scheuer ..... Prague Policeman (2 episodes, 1978)
Irene Prador ..... Maria Kalova (2 episodes, 1978)
George Pravda ..... Otto Felscher (2 episodes, 1978)
Bruno Thost ..... Kapo Melnick / ... (2 episodes, 1978)
Joe Trummer ..... Czech Jew (2 episodes, 1978)
Murray Salem ..... Analavitz (2 episodes, 1978)
Gabor Vernon ..... Rabbi Samuel (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Vogel ..... Emil Frey (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Weihs ..... Sacristan (2 episodes, 1978)
Marius Goring ..... Heinrich Palitz (2 episodes, 1978)
Kathina Kaiser ..... Sarah Ohlnick / ... (2 episodes, 1978)

Synopsis:

The now legendary miniseries Holocaust first aired as a presentation in NBC's Big Event series. Written by Gerald Green, the story begins in the Germany of 1935. We are introduced to the family of Jewish doctor Joseph Weiss (Fritz Weaver) his wife Berta (Rosemary Harris), his brother Moses (Sam Wanamaker), his sons Rudi (Joseph Bottoms) and Karl (James Woods), and his daughter Anna (Blanche Baker). We also meet struggling lawyer Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarity), who is urged by his ambitious wife to join the SS. As the Nazis' persecution of the Jews is stepped up, most of the Weiss family is deported to the Polish ghetto--then to Auschwitz, which is overseen by Erik Dorf. Rudi and his Jewish girlfriend Helena (Tovah Feldsuh) witness the 1941 Baba Yar massacre, then join the Russian partisans in their battle against the Nazis. Also appearing in Holocaust is Meryl Streep as Karl Weiss' Christian wife Inga. The winner of eight Emmy awards, Holocaust was originally telecast in four parts on April 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1978.

Holocaust was a television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers.
Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Gathering Darkness

Original Air Date-16 April 1978

In 1935 Berlin, the Weisses celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi government job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.

Season 1, Episode 2: Part 2

Original Air Date-17 April 1978

Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents don't want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final Solution. Moses and Dr. Weiss are caught when the Nazis overrun Poland. Helena rescues Rudi from a patrol. Berta joins her husband in the Warsaw ghetto. Rudi and Helena escape to Russia.

Season 1, Episode 3: Part 3

Original Air Date-18 April 1978

Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level Nazi conference in which Heydrich gives Hilter's orders of the final solution for all the Jews in Europe. Karl Weiss has been transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp which the Germans use to display to the Red Cross officials and representatives of neutral countries that Jews are being treated kindly. Karl learns that his fellow artists in the camp are creating propaganda paintings by day while secretly drawing images of the brutal conditions of the camp by night.

Season 1, Episode 4: Part 4

Original Air Date-19 April 1978

Erik Dorf complains to the other S.S. leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and other camps. Inga asks Muller to denounce her and have her sent to Karl at Theresienstadt. Felscher sells four of the secret drawings done by him, Frey and Karl, which depict the brutal conditions at Theresienstadt, to a Czech gendarme, which the S.S. get a hold of. Felscher, Frey and Karl are called in for questioning and then tortured, where Karl is the only one who survives and is told he is being sent to Auschwitz. He sees Inga one last time, where she tells him she is carrying his child. Karl dies the day Auschwitz is liberated. In Warsaw, Josef is caught for setting up the clinic to act as a front to keep people from getting on the train headed to Treblinka, and him and Berta with Mr. and Mrs. Lowy are sent to Auschwitz, where soon after they are sent to the gas chambers. Moses joins the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and they are successful in holding back 7,000 German soldiers over a three-week period, until they are forced out via a gas bomb and are shot. In the Ukraine, Uncle Sasha's unit attempts to shoot up a convoy, but Helena is shot and killed and Rudi is knocked unconscious. Rudi wakes up in the Sobibor camp, where he learns of a breakout being planned by the other prisoners and joins with them. He survives to the end of the war and is reunited with Inga in Theresienstadt, where he learns that Inga has given birth to a son, who is two years old named Josef, after Karl's father. Rudi is asked to lead a group of Greek orphans into Palestine. Erik Dorf is placed in custody by the Americans and after a brief questioning commits suicide via a cyanide pill hidden in the hem of his pants. Uncle Kurt Dorf visits Marta, Peter and Laura Dorf and tells them what really happened to Erik, despite an unsigned letter Marta is reading commending Erik's service to the Reich. He then tells them what Erik and the other SS men really were - mechanical killers. In response, Marta tells Uncle Kurt they never want to see him again. Uncle Kurt says he will not be silent about the truth.

Holocaust follows each member of the Jewish Family Weiss throughout Hitler's reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination under Anti-Semetic Nazi Law until only one son remains at the end of World War II. A sub-plot follows the story of Eric Dorf, a young German lawyer with a good heart who is changed into a mass murderer by membership in the SS.

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