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Kapò (Italian:) is a 1960 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was one of the first narrative films to deal explicitly with the subject of the Holocaust, with graphic depictions of concentration camps which made it controversial at the time.
In the opening scene, Edith walks past some shops on her way back home. One of the shops look like it belongs to the booming 1950s than the more austere WWII period. There is a toy car or baby push car in the store window that shows the typical car design of the 1950s. Quotes.
The Oscar-nominated Kapò was one of the first films to depict the horror of the Holocaust, and it does so with brutality and daring emotional complexity.
Kapò is a 1960 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was one of the first narrative films to deal explicitly with the subject of the...
Mar 27, 2012 · Kapò, Gillo Pontecorvo - Trailer by Film&Clipsdi Gillo Pontecorvo. Con Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego, Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Gianni Garko Scampata...
Five years before his untouchable masterpiece The Battle of Algiers, director Gillo Pontecorvo was nominated for an Oscar for Kapò. That's a heck of a ride for a man who wanted to be a chemist earlier in life, then made a career as a journalist, and later a documentary filmmaker.
A prisoner (Susan Strasberg) in a concentration camp collaborates with her Nazi captors in order to survive.
