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starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe, Don McKellardirected by: Joan Micklin Silver
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781574924718
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1574924710
Label: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Release Date: August 26, 1997
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 8784
Studio: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 1997
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - More like a play than a movie
First , I really wanted to like this movie even though I did not expect another Schindler's List type feature. The producers must have saved a lot on the very restrictive set. Let's not forget that this is the Warsaw ghetto but there are plenty of other movies which are not so claustrophobic. I'm sure this claustrophobia is more related to a limited budget than to the artistic message they want to send. 2 other things which in my opinion did not go well: The main character may be a good actor but ... Read More
Rating:  - grim flowers of despair
"Lord send me tears", the Rabbi cries in despair in one scene.
And he has many reasons. Trying to be a bastion of hope to his doomed flock. People dying around him. Others diseaparing onto trains to the camps never to be heard from again. His daughter is raped by an SS officer. His son returns from the dead a demon
Oddly enough, he gets his tears and from a most unlikely source
Holocaust films are by nature not happy since the genre is that of death and despair. Yet ... Read More
Rating: - you will not soon forget this movie
this is a beautiful movie with a powerful theme of morality.The sound track adds to the power and should be sold separately...so far I haven't found it. If you want to have some food for the mind and add some shades to the spectrum of grays see this movie.
Rating: - The best movie I have ever seen
I watched this movie some months ago when it was aired on TV, and it moved me so much I could not sleep for many nights.
Nothing in the film was exagerrated, nor was anything in it untrue. The performances and screenplay were so magnificent, it was like having stepped back in time and seeing the story unfold before your eyes. It was the best potrayal of WW2 that I have ever come across.
This movie, like a good book, not only deserves one viewing, but many, whenever we need to ... Read More
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