Kapo
1960 · Movie · 117 min · ★ 6.9 · 65% critics
A young Jewish woman is deported to a Nazi extermination camp and faces impossible choices to stay alive. To gain protection and better treatment, she takes on a privileged prisoner role that requires enforcing brutal rules on others, forcing her to weigh survival against conscience in a world built to destroy both.
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Details
- Original title
- Kapò
- Years
- 1960
- Release date
- 1960-09-27
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (81 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a bleak, morally challenging Holocaust-era survival story that focuses on hard choices and human cost; Not for you if you avoid relentless brutality, despair, or melodramatic turns like some viewers noted.
Pros: intense survival drama; strong lead performance; stark camp realism | Cons: uneven character motivations; sentimental melodrama; romance weakens focus
Themes
- concentration camp
- holocaust (shoah)
- communists
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1961 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1961 · nominated
Cast & crew
Susan Strasberg
as Edith
Laurent Terzieff
as Sascha
Emmanuelle Riva
as Terese
Didi Perego
as Sofia
Gianni Garko
as Karl
- AB
Annabella Besi
as Carole
Graziella Galvani
as Isabelle
Paola Pitagora
as Georgette
- EB
Eleonora Bellinzaghi
Bruno Scipioni
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo