Susan Strasberg
Edith / Nicole Niepas
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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.
Kapo: Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. With Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego. A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
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- Drama, War
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- 1960-09-29
Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Your Name Is Now Nicole Smuggled by fellow prisoners to a helpful infirmary doctor somewhere in Nazi Germany, French Jewish teenager Edith (Susan Strasberg) adopts the identity of a deceased thief, early in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Susan Strasberg
Left to rot in a Nazi concentration camp, Edith, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, sees her parents die in the gas chamber. And, for fear of meeting her end, Edith summons up every last ounce of courage to accept the new reality, going to great lengths to survive.
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 Holocaust, with graphic depictions of concentration camps which made it controversial at the time.
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
