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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097366220647
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD622064D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Running Time: 475 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1978

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
The 30th anniversary edition of Holocaust marks the first time this remarkable, nine-and-a-half-hour television miniseries has been released on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC as part of an ongoing TV phenomenon in the 1970s called "The Big Event," Holocaust was an original story written by Gerald Green, who later scripted Kent State and Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, the latter another Holocaust-era tale. Holocaust narrowed the enormous story of the Nazis' systematic destruction of Jews by focusing on one family living in Berlin. Fritz Weaver plays Dr. Josef Weiss, a Pole with a longtime family practice. Weiss debates with his wife, Berta (Rosemary Harris), the wisdom of moving out of Germany with their family. She insists they should not be chased away by Hitler, and by the time she thinks otherwise, it's too late for her, her parents, Josef, and the three Weiss children: Karl (James Woods), Rudi (Joseph Bottoms), and Anna (Blanche Baker). Holocaust begins with the marriage of Karl to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian, an arrangement already frowned upon by the rising Nazi regime in 1935. In time, Karl, a harmless artist, is dragged off to the concentration camp at Buchenwald, leaving Inga vulnerable to a predatory camp officer who passes notes between the husband and wife. Poor young Anna meets a grim fate that reveals something of the way Hitler was determined to eliminate the mentally ill along with Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other groups of people. The rebellious Rudi ends up fighting the Germans from a different front, while Josef is deported to Warsaw, eventually joined by Berta. There, Holocaust details the plight of the walled-in, so-called Warsaw ghetto, and the despair of the people within. Meanwhile, the destiny of another important character, a rather effete lawyer named Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), offers a peek into the internal workings of the Holocaust machinery. Dorf takes a much-needed job as an aide to Reinhard Heydrich (David Warner), Gestapo head and chair of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of European Jews. Holocaust was criticized at the time of its broadcast for allegedly cheapening genocide by shrinking the dimensions of the Nazis' organized evil for commercial television. But as a story free to extend into different aspects of the war on Jews, Holocaust is a real eye-opener. Tom Bell, Ian Holm, Robert Stephens, and Sam Wanamaker are also featured in the cast. --Tom Keogh

Description:
An original TV dramatization of one of the most monstrous crimes in world history - the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. Dramatically and definitively, the story covers an entire decade, the eventful years from 1935 to 1945. HOLOCAUST focuses on the tragedy and triumph of a single family - the Weiss family. Their story is told in counter-poise to that of another fictional family, that of Erik Dorf, who portrays a Nazi aide to Germany's infamous Heydrich. Starring a brilliant international cast and filmed on location in Berlin and Vienna.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Where Is The Whole Movie? Huh?
I have to agree with the negative reviews of this DVD version of "Holocaust". This presentation of the horrific murder of millions of people during WWII is timeless and educational. However; the transfer could have been better. The video contranst is bright and the audio is a little muddy at times. The biggest gripe is that this version has been edited from the orginal. Buy if you must but you won't be getting the full meal deal. HEY PARAMOUNT AND CBS: restore, remaster and reissue an uncut ... Read More

Rating:

- Must See Miniseries!!
Although this miniseries is depressing, it should be mandatory viewing for all people, especially in High School! Great directing and acting!

Rating:

- Still a great mini series
I remember watching this when I was a junior high student. It was the first I had heard of the horrible fate of six million European Jews under Hitler's Nazi Europe. It was so moving and heartbreaking that I remember crying several times. When I visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., one of the curators told me that this series really gave Americans their first realistic glimpse of Jewish life in Nazi Germany

I watched it again and was still incredibly moved. The Family ... Read More

Rating:

- Holocaust
I watched this series when it first screened many years ago. It is as I remembered, well worth watching My only criticism is the accents. No effort appears to have been made to make the accents authentic, otherwise an excellent production. One would hope that the events portrayed are never allowed to happen again. Watching this series is very harrowing but very worthwhile.

Rating:

- THE MINI SERIES ' HOLOCAUST'
I am a a student of history and militaria and first saw this programme whilst in hospital in 1978. When I saw the DVD was available and I had to obtain it for my library as it such a good production. I could finally 'pension off' my old VHS tapes.

That said, my complaint concerns the uniforms. The rank collar patches for some of the SS Officers, especially Heydrich, were incorrect and on one occasion an SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer [ Lt Colonel ] is referred to a Major [ SS-Sturmbannfuhrer ... Read More

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