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Kapo

Name: Kapo
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1960
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego, Gianni Garko

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.

1960 · Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo · 117 min · Drama · War · 10 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
Cinematography: Aleksandar Sekulović
Edited by: Roberto Cinquini
Music: Gillo Pontecorvo, Carlo Rustichelli
Production design: Piero Gherardi, Aleksandar Milović
Produced by: Moris Ergas

Cast

Susan Strasberg as Edith
Laurent Terzieff as Sascha
Emmanuelle Riva as Terese
Didi Perego as Sofia
Gianni Garko as Karl
Annabella Besi as Carole
Graziella Galvani as Isabelle
Paola Pitagora as Georgette
Eleonora Bellinzaghi
Bruno Scipioni

Production

Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Language: Russian, German, Italian, Polish
Studios: Cineriz, Francinex, Vides Cinematografica, Lovćen film
Themes: concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), communists

More by Gillo Pontecorvo

The Battle of Algiers — 1966
Burn! — 1969

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