- Kapò
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name = Kapò
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director =Gillo Pontecorvo
producer =Franco Cristaldi Moris Ergas
writer = Gillo PontecorvoFranco Solinas
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starring =Susan Strasberg Didi Perego Laurent Terzieff
music =Carlo Rustichelli
cinematography =Aleksandar Sekulovic
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distributor = Cineriz
released = Italy 19591 June 1964 USA
runtime = 116 minutes (US); 118 minutes (Spain)
country =Italy France Yugoslavia
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imdb_id = 0052961Kapò is an Italian film about the
Holocaust directed byGillo Pontecorvo in 1959. It was nominated for theAcademy Award as best foreign film. It was an Italian-French co-production filmed inYugoslavia .Plot summary
Naive fourteen-year-old Edith (
Susan Strasberg ) and her Jewish parents are sent to aconcentration 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 more 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 Russianprisoner of war , Edith is persuaded to play a crucial role in a mass escape, turning off the power. Most are killed, but some get away. Edith is not one of them. As she lays dying, she tells her friend, "They screwed us over, Karl, they screwed us both over."See also
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List of Holocaust films External links
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