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A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total
Dragomir Felba
- Salomon Lejtman
- (as Felba Dragomir)
Semka Sokolovic-Bertok
- Prisoner
- (as Semca Sokolovic)
Dirjana Dojic
- Ninette
- (as Dirjana Dojc)
Graziella Durano
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Sima Janicijevic
- Doctor who changes Edith's name
- (uncredited)
Rastislav Jovic
- Yanko Milovich
- (uncredited)
Dusan Perkovic
- Commandant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGillo Pontecorvo's favorite of his own movies.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, Edith walks past some shops on her way back home. One of the shops look like it belongs to the booming 1950s than the more austere WWII period. There is a toy car or baby push car in the store window that shows the typical car design of the 1950s.
- Quotes
Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [to Sasha] Your mother won't like me, I'm not a good girl, and my name's not Nicole, I'm a Jew.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992)
Featured review
A Powerful Tale Of Survival
Edith is a Jewish teen whose family is among those loaded onto boxcars and shipped to Auschwitz. This is a story of brutality and Susan Strasberg ("Picnic") plays the central character who struggles to survive the Nazi holocaust machine.
Shot in black and white, of course, the film provides a stark and nearly unrelenting look at the depravity, deprivations, and degradations found in concentration camps. Strasberg is strong in her role, embodying the chameleon-like ability to change that gives her character a chance to survive, though survival has its price.
The action feels real, the locations feel real, and real emotions are evoked by this ambitious attempt to delve into the real human costs of barbarism---the loss of principles, the corruption of dignity, and the subtle shadings of resistance.
The Italian producers of this film pursued Strasberg for this role, somehow knowing that she had the depth within her to bring Edith to life on the screen. Her father, Lee, recommended she accept the role. Luckily, she did.
Shot in black and white, of course, the film provides a stark and nearly unrelenting look at the depravity, deprivations, and degradations found in concentration camps. Strasberg is strong in her role, embodying the chameleon-like ability to change that gives her character a chance to survive, though survival has its price.
The action feels real, the locations feel real, and real emotions are evoked by this ambitious attempt to delve into the real human costs of barbarism---the loss of principles, the corruption of dignity, and the subtle shadings of resistance.
The Italian producers of this film pursued Strasberg for this role, somehow knowing that she had the depth within her to bring Edith to life on the screen. Her father, Lee, recommended she accept the role. Luckily, she did.
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- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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