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Kapò ( Italian: [kaˈpɔ]) 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.
italian with english subtitles. A prisoner (Susan Strasberg) in a concentration camp collaborates with her Nazi captors in order to survive. Addeddate.
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.
Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Can Happen To Us Opening Jewish Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's second feature, Paris the setting early in the Nazi occupation, American Susan Strasberg as Jewish teen Edith, seeing her parents captured by German guards, in Kapo, 1960.
Before he left his mark on cinema forever with the revolutionary The Battle of Algiers, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo directed this audacious World War II drama about a young Jewish woman (Susan Strasberg) in a Nazi concentration camp, who saves herself from death by assuming another’s identity and becoming a ruthless warden.
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.
