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Kapò
''Kapò'' () is a 1960 Italian film about the Holocaust directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. It was an Italian-French co-production filmed in Yugoslavia. Plot Naive 14-year-old Edith ( Susan Strasberg) and her Jewish parents are sent to a concentration camp, where the latter are killed. Sofia ( Didi Perego), an older, political prisoner, and a kindly camp doctor save her from a similar fate by giving her a new, non-Jewish identity, that of the newly dead Nichole Niepas. As time goes by, she becomes hardened to the brutal life. She first sells her body to a German guard in return for food. She becomes fond of another guard, Karl (Gianni Garko). The fraternization helps her become a ''kapo'', one of those put in charge of the other prisoners. She thrives while the idealistic Sofia grows steadily weaker. When she falls in love with Sascha (Laurent Terzieff), a Russian prisoner of war, Edith is persuaded to play a cruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillo Pontecorvo
Gilberto Pontecorvo (; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama ''The Battle of Algiers'' (1966), which won the Golden Lion at the 21st Venice Film Festival, and earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. His other films include the ''Kapò'' (1960), a Holocaust drama; ''Burn!'' (1969), a period film about a fictional slave revolt in the Lesser Antilles; and ''Ogro'' (1979), a dramatization of the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque separatists. He also directed several documentaries and short films. In 2000, he received the Pietro Bianchi Award at the Venice Film Festival. The same year, he was ascended as a Knight's Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Early life Pontecorvo, born in Pisa, was the son of a wealthy secular Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
