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Holocaust

IMDb 7.3 1978 • min • DramaWar & Politics

Director

Gerald Green

Country

US

Plot Summary

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

Top Cast

Tom Bell
Tom Bell Adolf Eichmann
Joseph Bottoms
Joseph Bottoms Rudi Weiss
Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh Helena Slomová
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris Berta Palitz Weiss
Tony Haygarth
Tony Haygarth Heinz Müller