Hva var utgivelsesdatoen for Kapo?

Kapo ble utgitt 29. september 1960.

Hvem regisserte Kapo?

Kapo ble regissert av Gillo Pontecorvo.

Hva er spilletiden til Kapo?

Kapo har en spilletid på 1t, 57m.

Hvem produserte Kapo?

Kapo ble produsert av Moris Ergas.

Hvem er hovedpersonene i Kapo?

Hovedpersonene i Kapo er Edith (Susan Strasberg), Sascha (Laurent Terzieff), Terese (Emmanuelle Riva).

Hva er aldersgrensen for Kapo?

Kapo har aldersgrensen Not Rated.

Hva er publikumsvurderingen av Kapo?

Kapo har en publikumsvurdering på 8.4 av 10.

Kapo

Regissert av Gillo Pontecorvo

Not Rated

29. september 1960 1t, 57mDrama, War

7.657%84%6.9

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Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

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Susan StrasbergEdith
Laurent TerzieffSascha
Emmanuelle RivaTerese
Didi PeregoSofia
Gianni GarkoKarl
Annabella BesiCarole
Graziella GalvaniIsabelle
Paola PitagoraGeorgette
Eleonora Bellinzaghi
Bruno Scipioni
Dragomir Felba
Mira Dinulović
Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Sima Janićijević
Rastislav Jović
Dušan Perković
Gillo PontecorvoRegissør / Manus / Komponist
Franco SolinasManus
Moris ErgasProdusent
Piero GherardiProduction Design
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CrossCutCritic25. april 2025
Kapò (1959) When the Lost Believe They're Unfindable --- There is a wound so deep it forgets its name. Kapò is not a Holocaust film in the conventional sense. There are no grand heroics, no sentimental flashbacks, no Spielbergian strings to rescue you emotionally. What it offers is a question: What happens to the soul that survives by becoming someone else? Edith is that soul. Fourteen. Jewish. Torn from her family and cast into Auschwitz. And then—an erasure. A false identity. A collaboration with death. Nicole is the name she wears now. It means “victory of the people.” A bitter irony for a girl who saved her body by crucifying her soul. She becomes what she must to stay alive. And in the process, dies in the only way that matters. --- Kapò is not about atrocity. It is about exile. Not geographic, but existential. The exile from belovedness. Because Edith does not just believe she has done evil. She believes she has become it. She is, in the end, not just hiding from the Nazis. She is hiding from herself. --- And yet… God goes looking. Not loudly. Not with plagues or trumpets or parted seas. Just with one man: Sascha. A Russian prisoner. A gentle face. A slow voice. A heart big enough to say: I know what you’ve done. I love you anyway. This is not romantic flourish. It is theological architecture. Because when someone is buried under shame, they cannot claw their way out. They must be named. Loved. Called. Not despite what they’ve done—but precisely because of it. Sascha does this. And for a flicker of time, Nicole becomes Edith again. Not fully. Not yet. But the ember glows. --- And then betrayal. Sascha is not what he seemed. Or maybe he was, but fear swallowed him. The plan to escape the camp requires Edith’s death. He knows. He tells her anyway. And now we are past doctrine. Now we are in Gethsemane. --- Kapò is not subtle about its final sequence. It is a Passion Play. Edith walks alone to the place of her death. She could flee. She does not. She enters the power station. Shuts it down. Tears out the circuits. Dismantles the machine of death. And waits to be killed. But it is not suicide. It is surrender. --- Carl, the only soul in the film still capable of pity, finds her body. Holds her as she bleeds out. Watches her lips form a final prayer: The Shema. Not “Nicole.” Not “kapò.” But Edith. A name spoken into eternity. A soul reclaimed. --- You could say this is a film about guilt. But it’s not. It’s a film about grace. The kind that finds you in the ruins of yourself. The kind that waits until every other thing has been stripped away—identity, safety, even love—and then speaks one last word: Mine. Edith is the lost sheep who wandered too far. Who crossed too many lines. Who forfeited too much. And still, the Shepherd came. Because no line is too far for a God who walks into hell to bring you home. *** And if this spoke to you... Here are a few more films I've reviewed where the cross meets the human soul in unexpected places: Winter Light – For those who’ve cried out and heard only silence. Ordet – A film about resurrection, madness, and what love dares to believe. Through a Glass Darkly – For the soul caught between delusion and divinity. The Tree of Life – Memory as liturgy. Pain as prayer. Grace as the last word. Mickey 17 – A clone’s search for worth in a world of expendables. Sinners – A cartoon parable for our anxious, performative age. Greyhound – A war film that’s secretly about pastoral care under fire. These aren’t “Christian movies.” But they are haunted by a deeper hope. Maybe you are too.

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