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"Kapò" has an unusual pedigree. It's an Italian-French co- production that was filmed in Yugoslavia! It also was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film--which it lost to Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring".When the film begins, teenager Edith has been brought to a Nazi death camp along with her parents and many other Jews. Because she was so young, she's been separated and placed with the children-- children who are all going to be liquidated the next day. When Edith learns of this, she runs. But where can you run in a death camp?! She eventually runs into a prisoner who hides her. He also helps her establish a new identity...Nicole, a French kapo. A kapo, in case you didn't know it, was a guard chosen from among the prisoners. This guard was a career criminal or homosexual whose job it was to beat and mistreat their fellow prisoners. So, 'Nicole' was now expected to behave and act like one of these degenerates.At first, Nicole has great difficulty. After all, she's a young girl and has a decent heart. However, over time, after lots of privation and torment, she adapts to her new role and even seems to excel at being a kapo. What's next?Up through Edith/Nicole's transformation into a kapo, I was captivated by the film. However, although the final portion is pretty cinematic and 'nice', it also seems to be a bit of a let-down as well as being awfully unrealistic and overly sentimental. How could a person who would do ANYTHING to survive ultimately turn out to be someone who is so full of self-sacrifice? It just didn't make a lot of sense. Additionally, the film was a tad sloppy (such as the sloppy and obviously fake Nazi uniforms and the terrible use of stock footage). As a result, it's a good film but sure seems like it should have been more given its premise.

After reading some reviews on this movie, it was easy to make the decision to invest a couple hours of my time watching it and am very glad I did! This started out to be a very depicting picture of the harshness and horrors of WWII concentration camps but slightly different than the typical movies we see in that era as this focused on a camp with just women until about half way through you see some men POW's mixed in with the women and that is when the beautiful love story begins between Nicole and Sasha. Although it takes a while before the love truly blossoms between them, you know as soon as they met that this might go somewhere. Although it ended in tragedy the movie really had me feeling so much for them and perhaps the fact that it did end the way it did, it was what made the movie even better than had it had a happy ending like so many movies do. I have come to realize that movies with happy endings are a dime a dozen and is difficult to recall them, but a movie ending in tragedy like this one did really sticks out from the rest and is one I will not soon forget! I'm not going to tell you about any details as you already know the plot if you are reading this, but I will tell you if you are a fan of beautiful movies, this is one not to be missed. I should warn you though that this movie has a bittersweet ending. On one hand the goal of escape is achieved on the other hand the leading lady is killed.

Roberto Benigni was hailed as a genius in 1999 for his whimsical and magical film 'Life is beautiful', which was about love surviving all adversities in the harsh playground of a Nazi concentration camp. I never liked that film, I felt it was a low and cheap way of playing the 'Love can survive any obstacle' schtick that filmmakers push on us viewers to make us feel all warm inside. Wife with cancer. Thats been done. Family in car accident near death. Boring. If Roberto Benigni is such a talent then where is he today? Miramax not backing his films anymore?KAPO made in 1959 by the Gillo Pontecorvo, who would later go on to make the brilliant 'Battle of Algiers', does more with his film about love surviving through all adversities than Mr Benigni could ever throw up for his own film about the harsh realities human beings had to do in order to survive.I caught this film just as I was going to sleep late one night and stayed up till the early morning riveted on what would become of 'Nicole', a 14 year old Jewish girl who along with her parents are thrown into a concentration camp during WW2. The little lost girl learns to adapt and survive in the camp which eventually leads her to become the 'Kapo' in the title.'They lied to us' seems to be the motto of this film, as Nicole learns to trust and look after only herself, until she opens up and discovers there is love once more in her awful life.I will not give too much away about this powerful and totally mesmerizing film, which once again opens up another story of life inside a concentration camp through the eyes of young Jewish girl who grows up quick and becomes a Nazi lackey in the form of a KAPO.

I've never really liked holocaust flicks because they get well, usually made so that the dumbest of the dumb to 'get it.' Kapo is just a movie that shows, not tells, which of course makes the best story. Thanks to TCM for playing this gem that I'll buy on DVD as soon as it comes out. I'd never even heard of it, and I have seen a LOT of flicks.Susan Strasburg does an incredible job as Nicollete / Edith. Her transformation from shell-shocked victim to cynical survivor is absolutely gripping. The tension in the movie builds to nearly unbearable level and the end simply leaves you scooping your jaw off the floor.This is the type of movie I sorely needed after going on a loooong dry spell of celluloid garbage. Why this movie isn't famous, I have no idea, but it should be.