Ghetto (2006)

IMDb rating 6.9/10 from 1,002 votes

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.

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Out of the Ashes (2003)

Ratings: 6.9/10 from 833 users  

Based on a true story, this heart-wrenching film follows the journey of Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to... Based on a true story, this heart-wrenching film follows the journey of Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to survive Auschwitz. Decades later, she's applying for U.S. citizenship when she becomes accused of colluding with the Nazis. Her judge and jury are three INS investigators (played by Bruce Davison, Richard Crenna and Beau Bridges) who must decide her fate

Out of the Ashes is a made-for-television movie that was released by Showtime. It is a dramatization of the life of Holocaust concentration camp survivor Gisella Perl and is based on her book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.

Plot

Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), a Jewish-Hungarian gynecologist from then Sighetu, Hungary, testifies before an Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) review board consisting of three men (Bruce Davison, Richard Crenna, and Beau Bridges). Perl is seeking to be granted citizenship after passing the New York State Medical Licensing Board examinations, wishing to begin practicing in New York. She recounts her early life when she aspired to be a doctor despite the admonishments of her father, her time practicing as a gynecologist before the German invasion, and her experiences as prisoner #25404, where she provided what medical care she could to fellow prisoners. Her most controversial actions included providing late-term abortions to pregnant women in order to save their lives. These pregnant women would otherwise have been killed immediately or subjected to the torture of horrific "medical" experiments.

Perl is accused of "colluding" with the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele who directed experiments on pregnant female inmates at the Auschwitz concentration camp. As the review board questions her over several days, she becomes increasingly emotional and questions her own determination to survive, as well as her guilt at having lived while so many others did not. She testifies that despite her intention to keep herself and others alive, she unknowingly became part of the Nazi efforts to kill, but she held on to the hope that the lives of the women she saved would undermine the efforts of the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish race. After she is granted citizenship and begins to practice in New York, she gets a call to attend one of the women whose first baby she had aborted in the camp. She delivers the baby and sees her wish that the Jewish race will survive fulfilled.[

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Eichmann (2007)

IMDb Ratings: 5.9/10 from 2,146 users

Eichmann is a biographical film detailing the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann. Directed by Robert Young, the film stars Thomas Kretschmann as Eichmann and Troy Garity as Eichmann's Israeli interrogator, Avner Less. It was first released in Brazil in September 2007, and was released in the United States in October 2010. The film is based on manuscripts of the interrogations of Adolf Eichmann (Thomas Kretschmann) before he was tried and hanged in a prison in Israel. Eichmann recounts events from his past to a young Israeli officer, Captain Avner Less (Troy Garity), who is faced with the immense task of tricking the skilled manipulator into self-incrimination. While the world waits, Less' countrymen call for immediate execution, forcing him and Eichmann to confront each other in a battle of wills.

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the World's most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever.

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The Odessa File (1974)

IMDb rating : 7/10 dari 6.787 suara

Cerita dari dalam ini terjadi pada 22 November 1963, bersamaan dengan hari John F. Kennedy dibunuh. Peter Miller, seorang reporter muda Jerman melihat sebuah ambulans di jalan raya. Ambulan tersebut membawa seorang  tua Yahudi yang telah melakukan bunuh diri.  Reporter itu memperoleh buku harian dari Yahudi tersebut, yang berisi informasi mengenai kehidupan di Perang Dunia II, khususnya di Ghetto, dan nama-nama anggota SS yang menjalankan kamp disana. Miller terkejut membaca isi buku harian tsb bahwa seorang perwira SS, Eduard Roschmann yang telah dikuasai oleh amarah telah menembak seorang perwira Wehrmacht (AD) yang dianggapnya membangkang kepadanya. Peter Miller bertekad untuk memburu Roschmann, Miller pun menyamar untuk bergabung dan menyusup ke Odessa untuk menemukan Roschmann. Odessa merupakan sebuah organisasi mantan anggota SS yang selamat setelah Perang Dunia II.

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The Eichmann Show (2015)

IMDb Ratings: 7.0/10 from 784 users  

Described as the ‘trial of the century’, it was shown on TV in 37 countries and was the first time the horror of the death camps had been heard live directly from its victims. The trial became the world’s first ever global TV event, and this film tells the extraordinary story of the production team that overcame enormous obstacles to capture the testimony of one of the war’s most notorious Nazis.

Set in Jerusalem, 1961, ground-breaking TV producer Milton Fruchtman (Martin Freeman) hires director Leo Hurwitz (Anthony LaPaglia) to film the trial. A critically-acclaimed filmmaker who had pioneered multi-camera studio broadcasting, Hurwitz had been blacklisted under McCarthy for more than a decade. Arriving in Jerusalem, Hurwitz has a momentous job on his hands: together he and Milton must quickly train up an inexperienced camera team and persuade the judges to change their minds and let them film the trial. Working under intense pressure, the team finally wins permission to film by rebuilding the courtroom with specially concealed cameras.

Over the next four months, the trial highlights - hastily cut together at the end of each day and couriered around the world - would have a profound and sensational effect. Day after day, Holocaust survivors shared their shocking testimony with a global audience, and day after day Adolf Eichmann stunned the world with his apparent lack of contrition. Eighty percent of the German population watch at least one hour a week. It went out on all three US networks with daily news bulletins in the UK. People fainted when they saw it on TV, and it was the first time many start openly sharing their experiences of the Holocaust. The extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen has never been told.

Also starring Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It,) Andy Nyman (Peaky Blinders, Death At A Funeral) and Nicholas Woodeson (The Honourable Woman, Skyfall), the film features extensive archive footage from the 1961 trial, bringing the realities of this pivotal event to a new generation.

The Eichmann Show is directed by Paul Andrew Williams (Murdered by My Boyfriend, London to Brighton) and written by Simon Block (The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall). It is produced by Laurence Bowen (Suburban Shootout) and Ken Marshall (Song For Marion) for Feelgood Fiction Ltd in association with Vistaar Entertainment. Martin Davidson is the Commissioning Editor for the BBC.

The Eichmann Show will air on BBC Two in early 2015 as part of the BBC’s commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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The Book Thief (2013)

Rating IMDb : 7.6/10 - ?33,209 votes


Ditengah kengerian Perang Dunia II, seorang gadis muda bernama Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) hadir ditengah keluarga barunya dan memberikan perubahan untuk orang-orang disekitarnya. Ayah angkatnya (Geoffrey Rush) memberi ia tempat untuk belajar membaca dan menulis. Sejak saat itu Liesel gemar mengumpulkan buku-buku yang ia peroleh dari mana saja.

Sampai pada akhirnya ia bertemu dengan Max Vandenburg (Ben Schnetzer), seorang pemuda Yahudi yang tengah bersembunyi dari kejaran Nazi. Hans sangat berhutang budi pada Ayah Max dan mengambil resiko untuk menyembunyikan Max dirumahnya. Max yang kagum dengan semangat Liesel mengajarkannya membaca dan membuat Liesel tahu banyak hal tentang dunia. Di satu sisi, Liesel sangat senang dengan kehadiran Max namun disisi lain ia tahu bahwa Max akan menjadi ancaman bagi dirinya dan keluarga angkatnya. Bagaimana kisah Liesel selanjutnya yang membawa perubahan pada orang-orang disekitarnya dan bagaimana juga ia bertahan hidup bertaruh nyawa di tengah ganasnya Perang Dunia II? .
 

Pada tahun 2005 Markus Zusak menulis novel yang berjudul The Book Thief. Novel ini lah yang kemudian menginspirasi Brian Percival untuk membuat film dengan judul yang sama pada tahun 2013 dan berhasil membukukan pendapatan sebesar 68,4 juta dollar. The Book Thief juga masuk menjadi salah satu nominasi Oscar untuk kategori Best Original Score.

Film ini adalah film yang sangat inspiratif. Kegigihan dan semangat untuk belajar seorang Liesel Meminger meskipun berada dalam kondisi yang tidak memungkinkan dapat dijadikan contoh bagi para kaum muda. Visual effect yang dihadirkan juga bagus. Suasana Perang Dunia II sangat terasa sekali. Akhir kata film ini adalah film yang wajib ditonton. :)

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Escape from Sobibor (1987)

IMDb ratings: 7.5/10 from 5,650 users

Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS.[1] It is the story of the mass escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Avala, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

On 14 October 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing 11 German SS-Totenkopfverbände officers and a number of Sonderdienst Ukrainian and Volksdeutsche guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although all but 50 - 70 were later re-captured and killed.[2] After the escape, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the death camp closed. It was dismantled, bulldozed under the earth, and planted over with trees to cover it up

The film begins with a new trainload of Polish Jews arriving for processing at Sobibor. The German Commandant gives them a welcoming speech, assuring the new arrivals that the place is a work camp. Other SS officers move along the assembled lines of prisoners, selecting a small number who have trade skills such as goldsmiths, seamstresses, shoemakers, and tailors. The rest of the prisoners are sent away to a different part of the camp from which a pillar of smoke rises day and night. It is some time before the new prisoners realize Sobibor is a death camp, all of the other Jews are exterminated in gas chambers, and their corpses cremated in large ovens. The small number of prisoners who are kept alive in the other part of the camp are charged with sorting the belongings taken from those who are murdered and then repairing the shoes, recycling the clothing, and melting down any silver or gold to make jewelry for the SS officers. Despite their usefulness, these surviving prisoners' existence is precarious, and beatings and executions can occur at any time. Wagner is the most clever and sadistic of the German officers. When two prisoners escape from a work detail in the nearby forest, Wagner forces the remaining 13 prisoners of the work gang to each select one other prisoner to die with them and then executes all 26.

The leader of the prisoners, Leon Feldhendler, realizes when the trains eventually stop coming, the camp will have outlived its usefulness, and all the remaining Jews will be executed. He devises a plan for every prisoner to escape, by luring the SS officers and NCOs into the prisoners' barracks and work huts one by one and killing them as quietly as possible. Once all of the Germans are dead, the prisoners will assemble into columns and simply march out of the camp as if they have been ordered to, and it is hoped the Ukrainian Guards, not knowing what is going on and with no Germans left alive to give orders or raise the alarm, will not interfere. A new group of prisoners arrives, Russian Jews who were soldiers with the Soviet army. Their leader, Perchersky, and his men willingly join the revolt, their military skills proving invaluable.

The Camp Commandant leaves for several days, taking Wagner with him, which proves an advantage as the most cunning of the SS officers will be absent from Sobibor. On 14 October 1943, the plan goes into action. One by one, SS officers and NCOs are lured into traps set by groups of prisoners armed with knives and clubs. Eleven Germans are killed, but one officer, Karl Frenzel, unwittingly evades his killers, discovers the corpse of one of his colleagues, and raises the alarm. By now, the prisoners have assembled on the parade ground and, realizing the plan has been discovered, Perchersky and Feldhendler urge the prisoners to revolt and flee the camp. Most of the 600 prisoners stampede for the perimeter fences, some of the Jews using captured rifles to shoot their way through the Ukrainian guards. Other guards open fire with heavy machine guns from observation towers, cutting many of the fleeing prisoners down, and other would-be escapees are killed on the minefield surrounding the camp. But over 300 Jews reach the forest and escape.

As the survivors flee deeper into the forest, a voiceover narrator tells of the experiences and fates that befell some of the survivors whose accounts the film was based on. Of the 300 prisoners who escaped, only approximately 50 survived to see the end of the war, in 1945. For example, Perchersky makes it back to Soviet lines and rejoins the Red Army, surviving the war, and Feldhendler lives to see the end of the war but is killed shortly afterwards in a clash with anti-Semitic Poles. After the uprising, the largest escape from a prison camp of any kind in Europe during WW2, Sobibor was bulldozed to the ground, and trees were planted on the site to remove any sign of its existence

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Wunderkinder (2011)

IMDb Skor: 6,7/10 - ?450 suara

The story takes place in Ukraine (Poltava) in 1941 before and during the German invasion. This story is about deep friendship between three musically talented children .

Two Jewish children both virtuosic and a talented German girl who share a love of music .Their friendship extends beyond the gaps of different religions and nationalities, The Nazis invasion to the Soviet Union destroyed their world and they and their families deal  with death threats War brings with it. 

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The Roundup aka La Rafle (2010)

IMDb Skor: 7/10 - 5.727 suara

The Round Up (French: La Rafle) is a 2010 French film directed by Roselyne Bosch and produced by Alain Goldman. The film stars Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Sylvie Testud and Gad Elmaleh. Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy, the film depicts the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv), the mass arrest of Jews by French police who were Nazi accomplices in Paris in July 1942

Plot
Jo Weisman, a young Jewish Parisian, and his family are taken by the Nazis and Vichy collaborators in the rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. Anna Traube, a 20 year old woman, walks out of the velodrome with forged papers; her mother and sister are captured. Annette Monod, a Protestant nurse, volunteers for the velodrome, and assists Jewish doctor David Sheinbaum. From the Vélodrome d'Hiver Jo's family and Sheinbaum are transferred to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. Monod comes along. She does what she can to help the children, who are soon falling sick from the camp diet and conditions.

The parents are dispatched by train to supposed "work camps in the East" (in reality the extermination camps), and Sheinbaum too. Monod wants to come along, but Sheinbaum talks her out of it. After some time authorities announce that for humanitarian reasons the children will be reunited with their parents in the east (in reality the adults have already been killed, and they are now going to kill the children). Some children believe they will rejoin their parents. However, Jo and another boy, Pavel, escape under barbed wire, taking along money that the family had hidden in the toilets along with their valuables.

While the other children are being taken away, a doctor treats Monod, who is now sick herself. The doctor informs Monod that the Resistance has now learned the true fate of the deported Jews. When Monod hears what happens to them, she races after the children despite her sick condition. But she finds the train has just gone.

After the war, Monod searches for survivors at the Hôtel Lutetia. She finds Jo, who has survived and is to be adopted by a family, and a younger boy Noé, to whom she had also been close. He had somehow slipped out of the group of children taken away on the train to the extermination camps.

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The Pianist (2002)

Skor: 8,5/10 - ‎414.675 suara

The Pianist adalah sebuah film yang diproduksi pada tahun 2002 yang disutradarai oleh Roman Polanski dengan bintang utama Adrien Brody yang berperan sebagai Wladyslaw Spilzman. Film ini diinspirasi dari sebuah memoir karangan Wladyslaw Spilzman, seorang pianis Yahudi Polandia.

Film ini juga mendapatkan anugerah Palme d'Or di Festival Film Cannes. Dan juga mendapatkan Penghargaan Oscar.

Plot

Wladyslaw Spilzman adalah seorang pianis Yahudi Polandia yang terkenal, bekerja di Radio Polandia. Pada bulan September tahun 1939, stasiun radio dibom oleh serangan Nazi Jerman. Dia pulang kampung dan menyadari bahwa Inggris dan Perancis menyatakan perang terhadap Jerman. Dia pun percaya kalau perang akan selesai secepatnya dan keluarganya pun bahagia.

Ketika pendudukan Nazi di Polandia, keluarga Yahudi diwajibkan untuk membatasi jumlah uang, memakai ikat tangan berlambang Bintang Daud, dan pada tahun 1940, Nazi pun menyerang Ghetto (Perkampungan) Yahudi di Warsawa. Mereka pun menghadapi teror, kelaparan dan kematian di situ. Sebagian dari mereka pergi ke kamp konsentrasi di Treblinka. Untungnya, Wladyslaw Splizman selamat dari sweeping Yahudi berkat bantuan seorang perwira Jerman yang bekerja di Polisi Yahudi. Walaupun begitu, dia terpisah dari keluarganya. Dia pun bertahan sendiri.

Sewaktu hidup dalam persembunyian, ia menyaksikan banyak kekejaman pasukan SS (Schutzstaffel), seperti pembunuhan berantai, dan pembakaran massal. Spilzman juga menyaksikan penyerangan terhadap Ghetto Warsawa, dimana para Yahudi berusaha mempertahankan Ghetto-nya, tapi mereka pun kalah dari SS yang kekuatannya lebih besar.

Satu tahun berlalu dan kehidupan di Warsawa serasa hidup di kota hantu. Pada saat itu, Spilzman nyaris mati karena sakit dan kekurangan makanan. Setelah semua penduduk Polandia kabur, dan semua prajurit SS mundur dari Warsawa karena serangan Soviet, Spilzman pun sendiri.

Dia pun mencari makanan dari rumah yang tidak dibom, dan ketika itu, dia menyadari bahwa dia sedang dilihat oleh seorang perwira Jerman bernama Kapten Wilm Hosenfeld. Dia menyuruh Spilzman untuk memainkan lagu di piano. Akhirnya, Spilzman memainkan lagu Chopin-Ballade in G minor. Dia pun menyuruh Spilzman agar tidak bersembunyi. Setelah itu, Hosenfeld mengirim makanan kepada Spilzman, walaupun Spilzman seorang Yahudi. Ternyata memang Hosenfeld tidak tahu identitas Spilzman sebagai seorang Yahudi.

Beberapa minggu kemudian, tentara Jerman mundur dari Warsawa karena serangan Soviet. Sebelum berpisah, Hosenfeld bilang pada Spilzman bahwa namanya dalam Bahasa Jerman adalah Spielmann, yang arinya orang yang selalu bermain. Hosenfeld memberinya mantel (overcoat) tentara Jerman. Ketika pasukan Polandia mencapai Warsawa, mereka menemui Spilzman dan mereka mengiranya pasukan Jerman. Mereka pun menembak, tapi Spilzman mengatakan bahwa ia Yahudi dan tembakan pun berhenti. Ketika ditanya, mengapa memakai mantel tentara Jerman, dia hanya bilang "Saya kedinginan".

Ketika sebuah kamp konsentrasi dibebaskan oleh pasukan Soviet, Kapten Hosenfeld tertangkap disana. Kapten Wilm Hosenfeld pun meminta pembelaan dari Spilzman. Sayangnya, Spilzman datang terlambat ke kamp konsentrasi itu karena Hosenfeld sudah dibawa pergi ke Soviet. Film pun berakhir dengan konser Spilzman di Warsawa yang membawakan lagu "Chopin-Grande Pollonaise Briliante in E flat major"

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The Grey Zone (2001)

Skor: 7,1/10 - 7.885 suara

Film ini merupakan kisah nyata Dr Ikiiklos Nyiszli, seorang Yahudi Hungaria yang dipilih oleh Josef Mengele (Dokter Nazi di Auschwitz) untuk menjadi ahli kepala patologi di Auschwitz. Nyiszli adalah salah satu Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Skuad Khusus tahanan Yahudi yang ditempatkan oleh Nazi untuk membantu kinerja Nazi dalam memusnahkan orang-orang Yahudi. Tugas mereka yaitu mengarahkan tahanan yang sama-sama yahudi untuk dimsukkkan ruang gas dan kemudian mengkremasi mayat. Dan ajaibnya seorang gadis berusia 14 tahun selamat dari sebuah pemusnahan gas beracun. cerita dalam kamp ini kemudian berlanjut dengan usaha pemberontakan di dalam Auschwitz. Namun perjuangan mereka sia-sia, tak berakhir dengan hukuman mati terhadap mereka yang dianggap ikut serta.

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Amen (2002)

IMDb Skor: 7,3/10 - ?9.823 suara

Amen. is a 2002 German, Romanian and French film directed by Costa-Gavras.


In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal  gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and  the leaders of the Vatican.

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Conspiracy (2001)

Ratings: 7.8/10 from 11,060 users

Film yang berkisah/dramatisasi  dari pertemuan/rapat (Wannsee Conference) pada tahun 1942. Rapat yang berlangsung selama   2 jam itu akan  menentukan nasib jutaan jiwa bangsa Yahudi yang ada di kamp-kamp konsentrasi di seluruh Reich Nazi Jerman. Hasil/keputusan rapat inilah yang dikenal dengan istilah solusi akhir bagi orang Yahudi (the Final Solution) yakni dimulainya pemusnahan warga Yahudi dengan memasukan mereka ke dalam kamar-kamar gas untuk mengatasi semakin meningkatnya populasi penghuni kamp konsentrasi.

Berdasarkan film ini, pada dasarnya keputusan NAZI untuk "mengevakuasi" (mengeliminasi) para Yahudi adalah lebih karena faktor kondisi lahan, pangan dan ekonomi Jerman masa Perang Dunia, bukan sekedar alasan ideologis atau nasionalis semata.Dua kubu; pendukung dan penentang "pembersihan" etnis yahudi menyampaikan argumen-argumen mereka, dan selama 2 jam rapat tersebut, dibahas seputar keputusan "mengevakuasi", serta teknis-teknis "evakuasi" dan "eksekusi". Keputusan tersebut dilakukan dengan dasar keefektifitasan dan keefisienan.

Conspiracy is a BBC/HBO television film which dramatizes the 1942 Wannsee Conference. The film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" during World War II.

The movie was written by Loring Mandel, directed by Frank Pierson, and starred an ensemble cast, including Colin Firth, David Threlfall, Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann. Branagh won an Emmy Award for Best Actor, and Tucci was awarded a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Eichmann.

Plot
A meeting is held in order to determine the method by which the Nazi government is to implement Adolf Hitler's policy — that the German sphere of influence should be free of Jews, including those in the occupied territories of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and France. As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and mingle at a lakeside villa in Wannsee. Among those present:

    Wilhelm Stuckart (Colin Firth), a lawyer representing the Interior Ministry and co-author of the antisemitic Nuremberg laws
    Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (David Threlfall), deputy head of the Reich Chancellery
    Gerhard Klopfer (Ian McNeice), a lawyer from the Nazi Party Chancellery
    Martin Luther (Kevin McNally), Foreign Ministry's liaison to the SS
    Heinrich Müller (Brendan Coyle), Gestapo chief and Adolf Eichmann's immediate superior
    Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh), Heinrich Himmler's right hand man in the SS, who begins by explaining the purpose of the meeting.

It is quickly established by those present that there is a significant "Jewish problem", in that the Jews of Europe cannot be efficiently contained, nor can they be forced onto other countries. Kritzinger interrupts at several points to opine that the meeting is pointless, given that the Jewish Question had previously been settled, but Heydrich promises to revisit his concerns. A discussion follows of the possibilities of sterilization, and of the exemptions for mixed race Jews who have one or more non-Jewish grandparents. At this point, Stuckart loses his temper and insists that a sturdy legal framework is paramount, and that ad hoc application of standards will lead to administrative chaos. He also chides Klopfer for his simplistic portrayal of Jews as subhuman beasts, simultaneously painting his own picture of Jews as clever, manipulative and untrustworthy.

Heydrich calls a break in the proceedings, and takes Stuckart aside to warn him about the consequences of his stubbornness, implying that others in the SS will take an unwanted interest in his actions. When the meeting reconvenes, Heydrich steers the discussion in the direction of wholesale extermination using gas chambers. This causes consternation among many of the attendees, notably Kritzinger, who objects on the grounds that Hitler had given him personal guarantees that extermination of the Jews was not being considered, and representatives of the General Government administration, who are shocked to discover that the SS have been building extermination camps and making preparations for the "Final Solution" under their noses.

By this time it has become clear to everyone at the meeting that they have been called together not to discuss the problem but to be given orders by the SS, who are intent on wresting control of the operation from other agencies such as the Interior Ministry and the Reich Chancellery. Eichmann now describes the method that will be used, i.e. the gassing of Jews. Many have already been killed in specially-designed trucks and his figures include tens of thousands of victims. He even describes their bodies as coming out "pink" (a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning), at which point one of the officials (Hofmann) is suddenly taken ill. He later puts it down to a bad cigar.

A break is called and this time it is Kritzinger's turn to be taken aside and intimidated by Heydrich, who warns that Kritzinger is influential but not invulnerable. Heydrich tells Kritzinger that he wants not only consent but active support, and Kritzinger realizes that any hopes he had of assuring livable conditions for the Jewish population are unrealistic. In return, he tells Heydrich a cautionary tale about a man consumed by hatred of his father, so much so that his life loses its meaning once his father dies; Heydrich later interprets this as a warning that a similar fate awaits them if they allow their lives to revolve around antisemitism, but rejects the possibility.

Heydrich then recalls and concludes the meeting, giving clear directives that the SS are to be obeyed in all matters relating to the elimination of the Jews. He also asks for explicit assent and support from each official, one by one. After giving careful instructions on the secrecy of the minutes and notes of the meeting, they are adjourned and begin to depart.

In the evening twilight, a stunned Kritzinger remarks to General Hofmann, "It is night in Moscow already. Soon it will be dark here. Do you think we will ever see the dawn in our lifetime?"

As the servants at the villa tidy away the remains of the meeting, and the officials depart, a brief account of the fate of each one is given. The movie ends with the house tidied up and all records of the meeting destroyed as if it had never happened.

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Apt Pupil (1998)

Skor: 6,7/10 - ‎27.147 suara

Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King. 

In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.

 

In southern California in 1984, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker (McKellen), is in reality Kurt Dussander — a former Obersturmbannführer in the SS who is now a fugitive war criminal hiding from justice. Bowden blackmails Dussander by threatening to turn him in to the police. However, the teenager is fascinated with Nazi atrocities perpetrated during World War II, and forces Dussander to share disturbing stories of what it was like working at Nazi extermination camps, and how it felt to participate in genocide.

To complicate things even further, Bowden even purchases an SS uniform from a costume shop, and forces Dussander to wear it. When he spends more time with the old man, his grades suffer, he loses interest in his girlfriend, and he conceals his bad grades from his parents. In turn, the Nazi blackmails the young boy into studying to restore his grades, threatening to expose the boy's subterfuge and his dalliance with Nazism to his parents. Dussander even poses as Todd's grandfather and goes to an appointment with Bowden's school counselor Edward French (David Schwimmer). Talking about the war crimes affects both the old man and the young boy, and an intoxicated Dussander attempts to kill a cat in his gas oven but fails when it attacks him and escapes. Dussander also takes great pride in Bowden's unbelievable turnaround, going from near dropout to straight A's in a matter of weeks.

One night, Dussander tries to kill a hobo who earlier had seen him in the uniform. When Dussander has a heart attack, he calls Bowden, who finishes the job, cleans up, and calls an ambulance for Dussander. At the hospital, Dussander is recognized by a death camp survivor sharing his room and he is arrested, prior to being extradited to Israel. Bowden graduates as his school's valedictorian and gives a speech about Icarus, saying, "All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper, that propels civilization to greatness." The scene is juxtaposed in a montage with Dussander's home being searched and the hobo's corpse being found in the basement.

Bowden is briefly questioned about his relationship with Dussander, but he manages to convince the police that he knew nothing of the old man's true identity. At the hospital, Dussander hears a group of Neo-Nazis demonstrating outside the hospital; realizing his identity has been hopelessly compromised, he commits suicide by giving himself an air embolism. When French learns that the man who met Bowden at school was not Bowden's grandfather but a war criminal, he confronts Bowden, who then blackmails him into silence by threatening to accuse him of making inappropriate sexual advances towards him, and to thereby expose him publicly as a homosexual and pederast.

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Schindler's List (1993)

IMDb Rating 8.9/10 from 515,945 votes 

 

Sutradara : Steven Spielberg

Pemain : Liam Neeson, Ralph Fienncs,Ben Kingsley

Film ini diangkat ke layar kaca berdasarkan adaptasi dan sebuah novel dengan judul yang sama, yang diterbitkan di Amerika Serikat. Novel tersebut adalah karya Thomas Keneally yang semula berjudul Schindler's Ark, kemudian difilmkan di tahun 1993 oleh Steven Spielberg.

Film ini berkisah mengenai perjalanan Oskar Schindler,seorang pengusaha Jerman, dalam perjalanannya menyelamatkan nyawa lebih dari seribu orang Yahudi Polandia. Sebagai pengusaha, Oskar mempekerjakan orang-orang Yahudi tersebut di pabriknya, sehingga mereka tidak dikirim ke kamp-kamp konsentrsi. Daftar pekerja yang kemudian dlidaftarkannya tersebutlah yang kemudian terkenal sebagai ”Daftar Schindler"

Pada permulaan film ini kita akan melihat kerumunan orang-orang Yahudi Polandia yang sedang mengantre untuk didaftar namanya. Sebagai catatan, Polandia ditaklukkan Jerman pada awal Perang Dunia II. Orang-orang Polandia keturunan Yahudi,tanpa pandang bulu, dikumpulkan untuk kemudian ditahan di Krakow. Pada saat itulah Oskar Schindler datang ke Polandia sebagai pengusaha yang mengalami kegagalan di Jerman. Pada awal dia datang, Schindler bermaksud mengambil keuntungan dari penaklukan Jerman terhadap Polandia. Dia ingin bangkit lagi sebagai pengusaha dengan jalan memanfaatkan tenaga-tenaga kerja paksa orang-orang Yahudi dan Polandia yang berlimpah umuk memproduksi barang-barang keperluan tentara Jerman.Oskar di awal film diperlihatkan sebagai seorang pengusaha tulen dengan kemampuannya mempersuasi dan berbaur dengan para penguasa dan petinggi militer Jerman. Kemampuannya ini kemudian membawa dirinya bersahabalt dengan salah satu petinggi militer, Julian Schemer. Segera setelah mendapat dukungan militer, Schindler mulai mendirikan pabrik guna memproduksi barang-barang keperluan tenlara, terutama  alat-alat dapur. Meski Oskar tidak mempunyai dukungan flinansial yang cukup, dengan  kemampuan relasinya, ia mampu mendapatkan bantuan dari seorang fungsionaris Dewan Yahudi bernama Itzhak Stern yang berhubungan dengan komunitas bisnis bawah tanah Yahudi. Schindler menawarkan kepada orang-orang Yahudi sebagian keuntungan usahanya, asalkan pihak Yahudi mau meminjamkan dana yang diperlukan. Di sinilah titik mula kolaborasi Schindler dan Stern. Lewat pabrik inilah Stern menolong para tahanan Yahudi yang dikurung di Krakow. Mereka dipekerjakan di pabrik dan memperoleh surat yang menerangkan bahwa mereka adalah orang penting sehingga tidak akan ditangkap di malam hari oleh Gestapo. Stem berusaha sebanyak mungkin mengeluarkan surat semacam itu. Schindler yang mengetahui hal tersebut merasa diperalat oleh Stern, namun ia memilih diam.

Pada saat itulah datang ke Krakow perwira tentara khusus NAZI bemama Amon Goth. Dia berencana memuIai pembangunan sebuah kamp kerja paksa, Plaszow. Goth adalah representasi kekejaman, kebengisan, dan tiadanya hati nurani orang-orang NAZI. Dalam satu adegan diperlihatkan bagaimana setelah ragu untuk beberapa saat, dengan tanpa perasaan Goth menembak kepala seorang anak dari belakang hanya karena anak itu tidak membersihkan kamar mandi Goth dengan benar Dia juga memerintahkan anak buahnya untuk meratakan Krakow yang penuh sesak dengan manusia dan menemukan siapa saja yang tidak segera pergi. Schindler yang melihat ini semua menjadi risau dengan kemungkinan dia akan kehilangan para pekerjanya yang menjalankan roda pabrik. Maka Schindler memutuskan untuk berteman dengan Goth. Pada saat-saat inilah terjadi transformasi pada diri Schindler, dari seseorang yang hanya mengejar keuntungan diri semata menjadi sosok yang benar-benar tulus membantu para pekerjanya. Di bagian akhir film kita akan melihat bagaimana dia mengeluarkan uang daIam jumlah besar untuk menyogok Goth agar mengizinkan dirinya untuk memindahkan para pekerjanya agar tidak perlu dipindah ke Auschwitz. Daftar nama-nama pekerja yang disusunnya bersama Stem itulah yang mendasari kisah ini.

Schindler's List berlatar belakang pendudukan Nazi di Polandia, dan menawarkan lebih dari sekadar perjalanan perjalanan perang itu sendiri. Film ini menawarkan perenungan dan empati yang mendalam pada perjalanan tokohnya. Spielberg dengan sangat piawai mendramatisasi plot dan karakter para tokohnya, sehingga tampak berenergi. ”Barang siapa menyelamatkan satu nyawa,ia menyelamatkan seluruh dunia” adalah kutipan dari Talmud yang merupakan kalimat kunci dari film ini. Terlepas dari kritik yang menyebut bahwa Schindler's List—lengkap dengan segala kekejian Nazi yang ditampakkan dengan vulgar-adalah salah satu propaganda Yahudi untuk membesar-besarkan peristiwa Holocaust, film ini tetap merupakan salah satu masterpiece Spielberg selain  film-film besar lainnya seperti Saving Private Ryan atau Empire of The Sun.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

IMDb Ratings: 7.8/10 from 108,724 users

Salah satu film yang menawarkan ironi dan juga sekaligus agoni dari sebuah perang dari sudut pandang seorang anak. Film-film seperti ini pernah kita saksikan sebelumnya. Sebut saja Empire of The Sun (Christian Bale), atau Life is Beautiful.Namun tidak seperti kedua film tersebut, film ini memberi kita gambaran akhir yang tidak hanya penuh dengan ironi, namun juga tragis. Mengambil setting di zaman pendudukan NAZI, film ini membawa kita secara lebih dekat melihat kamp konsentrasi NAZI yang terkenal, Auswicht. 

Dikisahkan sebuah keluarga Jerman yaitu Ralf seorang anggota pasukan SS, pasukan khusus Jerman, diberi promosi dengan diangkat menjadi komandan kamp konsentrasi NAZI,Auswitch. Ralf mempunyai seorang istri bernama Elsa dan dua orang anaknya, Gretel dan Bruno. Di rumah barunya, Bruno merasa kesepian sehingga hampir setiap hari dia keluar dari rumah secara diam-diam untuk bertualang. Suatu saat dia menemukan sebuah jalan rahasia yang ujungnya adalah pagar di salah satu sisi dan kamp yang diyakininya sebagai sebuah lahan pertanian. Di sinilah dia bertemu dengan teman sebayanya bemama Schmuel. Mereka kemudian berteman akrab. Secara perlahan Schmuel menyadarkan Bruno bahwa ini bukanlah lahan pertanian, melainkan sebuah penjara. Dia dan orangtuanya dipenjara dan dipaksa memakai pakaian seragam bergaris dan dikurung di penjara karena mereka adalah orang Yahudi. Suatu hari, pembantu Yahudi di rumah Bruno meninggal karena dipukuli oleh teman dekat Gretel seorang tentara NAZI jahat yang tidak seperti ayahnya. Schmuel kemudian dipanggil untuk dijadikan pembantu. Satu saat ketika sedang bekerja, Bruno memberinya sepotong kue yang langsung dimakannya‘ dengan lahap. Teman Gretel yang melihatnya langsung menuduhnya mencuri. Schmuel kemudian berterus terang bahwa Bruno adalah temannya dan dia yang memberinya kue. Bruno yang panik menyangkalnya dan mengaku tidak kenal dengan Schmuel. Schmuel kemudian dikembalikan ke kamp. Dengan penuh penyesalan, Bruno mendatangi Schmuel di tempat biasa mereka bertemu. Schmuel menemuinya dengan sorot mata yang penuh luka. Mereka akhimya berbaikan.
Sementara itu Elsa akhirnya tahu bahwa kamp Austwicht adalah sebuah ladang pembantaian dan bukannya sebuah kamp untuk para pekerja. Dia berseteru dengan Ralf dan memutuskan untuk membawa anak-anaknya ke tempat bibinya. Sehari menjelang keberangkatan, Bruno mendatangi Schmuel yang secara tak terduga menceritakan mengenai ayahnya yang hilang.Merasa bahwa ini bisa menjadi petualangan terakhir yang tidak terlupakan, Bruno lalu memutuskan untuk membantu sahabatnya. Bruno pun menggali tanah di bawah pagar dan berganti pakaian dengan seragam garis. Di dalam kamp Bruno merasa shock dengan keadaan yang ada. Kelaparan, kebiadaban,dan hal-hal lainnya sangatlah berbeda dengan apa yang pernah
dilihatnya dalam sebuah film propaganda. ‘Proses pencarian mereka membuat mereka berbaur dengan para penghuni kamp. Saat itulah sebuah perintah diumumkan kepada seluruh penghuni kamp untuk melepas seluruh baju mereka. Schmuel mengatakan pada Bruno bahwa ini adalah saat mandi bersama.Bersama para penghuni kamp yang lain mereka berdesakan memasuki sebuah ruangan. Berdiri sesak di antara orang-orang dewasa, tangan Schmuel dan Bruno saling bertaut erat. Cahayapun padam. Sementara itu Elsa yang menyadari Bruno tidak berada di seisi rumah, menyalakan alarm yang kemudian ditindaklanjuti dengan panik oleh Ralf yang memerintahkan anak buahnya untuk mencari. Begitu menemukan lubang dan pakaian Bruno,Ralf langsung tahu apa yang terjadi. Seperti dikejar maut dia berlari ke dalam kamp mencari Bruno. Saat itulah terlihat olehnya seorang tentara memakai masker penutup muka berdiri di pucuk bangunan yang menyerupai sebuah tangki air. Dia terlihat sedang memasukkan bubuk ke dalam lubang yang kemudian ditutupnya dengan segera. Tahulah Ralf apa yang telah menimpa anaknya. Jeritan putus asanya terdengar penuh dengan derita yang tak terbayangkan.
Film ini bukanlah film perang bergenre action; Ini adalah film perang yang mengungkap sisi lain dari perang yang sedang berlangsung. Sebuah keluarga. Sebuah ironi. Terperangkap dalam kepentingan pihak yang lebih berkuasa. Film ini secara keseluruhan mendapat sambutan hangat di AS. Meski begitu, beberapa kritik sempat menyebutnya sebuah eksploitasi penderitaan keluarga Yahudi. Ada pula yang mengatakan bahwa mengenai kondisi sebenarnya di kamp konsentrasi tidaklah semengerikan yang dipaparkan di film. Tidak ada anak-anak di sana karena mereka tidak cukup berumur untuk dipekerjakan. Namun ada pula yang kemudian membantahnya bahwa banyak anak-anak yang ikut serta dengan orangtuanya dan biasa disuruh sebagai pengantar.

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