In an interview the writer said he wanted to create a "debate drama" and he was wary of exploiting the "emotional petrol" of the Holocaust. In that he was very successful I must admit, if you expect anything else you will be utterly disappointed, especially if you have ever read accounts of Holocaust survivors. Spoiler alert!
A group of prisoners put God on trial: why did God turn against the Jews, but has he? It goes on like this for 90 minutes. It seems the writer didn't do his research properly, there are plenty of silly mistakes, the "Jews" don't wear stars, you think there were only British Jews (one French) in Auschwitz, everything makes an unrealistic or even worse fake and cheap impression. I read it was shot in two weeks and no wonder it's such a poor production. I'm sorry but as a viewer I just don't expect long and quite boring academic speeches from starving prisoners. Interesting questions are raised but sometimes you get the impression the writer didn't want to dig too deep, sometimes the characters seem to be detached from the Holocaust, he created a "debate drama" but setting it in Auschwitz was a mistake.
A group of prisoners put God on trial: why did God turn against the Jews, but has he? It goes on like this for 90 minutes. It seems the writer didn't do his research properly, there are plenty of silly mistakes, the "Jews" don't wear stars, you think there were only British Jews (one French) in Auschwitz, everything makes an unrealistic or even worse fake and cheap impression. I read it was shot in two weeks and no wonder it's such a poor production. I'm sorry but as a viewer I just don't expect long and quite boring academic speeches from starving prisoners. Interesting questions are raised but sometimes you get the impression the writer didn't want to dig too deep, sometimes the characters seem to be detached from the Holocaust, he created a "debate drama" but setting it in Auschwitz was a mistake.