Average Rating: 8.5/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 0
Using audiotapes from the Auschwitz Trail, intermixed with archival footage and photographs, Verdict on Auschwitz is an illuminating historical document and a damning indictment of the people who perpetuated those horrors.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 0
Using audiotapes from the Auschwitz Trail, intermixed with archival footage and photographs, Verdict on Auschwitz is an illuminating historical document and a damning indictment of the people who perpetuated those horrors.
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Jan 12, 2007 Wide
Apr 17, 2007
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This exceptional film shows us the lower-echelon henchmen, the ones who enabled the master-racists.
[A] scrupulous, haunting and necessary documentary.
Valuable and instructive as it is, Verdict on Auschwitz can sometimes be so focused on the details it fails to show us the forest for the trees.
Verdict on Auschwitz not only tracks the 20-month trial but meticulously re-creates it.
Relying heavily on audiotapes from the trial, this documentary conveys the horrors of the Holocaust in a way even the best Hollywood movies can't.
A fascinating reflection on Germany's ongoing attempts to come to terms with its past.
Even if you have seen all the other Holocaust documentaries or visited the memorial museums, there is still more to be learned here about Auschwitz and post-war Germany.
The filmmakers want to cover all aspects of the individuals involved and the film sometimes digresses into side cases. Yet, as history goes, it is hard to present such an important event without showing the monumental evidence.
Not a pleasure to watch, but informative &successful at detailing an event that is quite well known, but perhaps not well enough felt&feared by those not directly affected.
... filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner provide a deconstruction of the mechanics of life at Auschwitz so exhaustive, it would make Claude Lanzmann proud.
This damning documentary serves as a sobering, if painful reminder of one of the most shameful chapters in human history.
A monumental achievement.
... in the wake of the sectarian lynching that was the execution of Saddam Hussein, a film like Verdict on Auschwitz takes on a particularly strident aura of necessity.
A monumental, powerful achievement.
After just coming back from Auschwitz, this film is even more powerfuland disturbing. Hate and ultimate power invite ultimate corruption and cruelty. Wholesale murder, torture and dehumanization of the victims under the guise of patriatism and honor are the sadists' excuses.
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