Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (2007)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: 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from the Auschwitz Trail, intermixed with archival footage and photographs, Verdict on Auschwitz is an illuminating historical document and a damning indictment of the people who perpetuated those horrors.
Theatrical Release:Jan 12, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: This harrowing documentary chronicles the Frankfurt trial of 22 SS soldiers who served at the notorious Polish concentration camp, Auschwitz. Of course there's no way to convey the actual horrors... [More]
Director: Rolf Bickel, Dietrich Wagner
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Reviews for Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz...
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 10/10 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
This exceptional film shows us the lower-echelon henchmen, the ones who enabled the master-racists. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
[A] scrupulous, haunting and necessary documentary. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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... filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner provide a deconstruction of the mechanics of life at Auschwitz so exhaustive, it would make Claude Lanzmann proud. Full Review |
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A- |
Verdict on Auschwitz not only tracks the 20-month trial but meticulously re-creates it. Full Review |
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4/4 |
This damning documentary serves as a sobering, if painful reminder of one of the most shameful chapters in human history. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A monumental achievement. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
... 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. Full Review |
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A fascinating reflection on Germany's ongoing attempts to come to terms with its past. Full Review |
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As both historical document and human document, this 180-minute epic is infinitely valuable. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
That our fascination with mostly recorded words can be successfully sustained for three hours is a tribute to the fine work by filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A monumental, powerful achievement. Full Review |
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Verdict on Auschwitz similarly juxtaposes archival footage and postwar material (both 1963 and 1993) to produce shocking eruptions of past atrocities in the context of an orderly everyday Europe. Full Review |
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You hear the note of disbelief in the trembling voices of survivors, and the absence of emotion in the tones of the accused -- men locked in a denial that seems as much pathological as self-serving. Full Review |
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