I watched this film on television on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, and I cannot begin to describe how bad it made me feel. Beside the unrealistic plot already noted by others, its climax is morally unacceptable.
*** SPOILER ***
In the end the son of the Nazi murderer is accidentally sent to the Gas chamber together with his Jewish victims. The film manipulates you into feeling particularly horrified about this accidental murder, simply by giving the German boy more human depth and family background than to all those murdered intentionally along with him. In this way the film actually dehumanizes the real victims. I think that you need to be morally bankrupt to do that.
*** SPOILER ***
In the end the son of the Nazi murderer is accidentally sent to the Gas chamber together with his Jewish victims. The film manipulates you into feeling particularly horrified about this accidental murder, simply by giving the German boy more human depth and family background than to all those murdered intentionally along with him. In this way the film actually dehumanizes the real victims. I think that you need to be morally bankrupt to do that.