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Auschwitz [DVD]

Arved Birnbaum , Nik Goldman , Uwe Boll    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Actors: Arved Birnbaum, Nik Goldman
  • Directors: Uwe Boll
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: High Fliers
  • DVD Release Date: 11 July 2011
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004XWJ1C4
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,596 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Product Description

Echoing the sentiments of Schindler s List, Auschwitz is a hard-hitting but respectful war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp. Including documentary footage, controversial German director Uwe Boll (Rampage, Darfur) says 50% of the German population doesn't know anything about the Holocaust. When I realized that there were many people who deny the Holocaust, or who had a distorted point of view about it, I decided to make this movie and get straight to the point, without any metaphors.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Echoing the sentiments of Schindler's List, Auschwitz is a hard-hitting but respectful war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp. Including documentary footage, controversial German director Uwe Boll (Rampage, Darfur) says "50% of the German population doesn't know anything about the Holocaust. When I realized that there were many people who deny the Holocaust, or who had a distorted point of view about it, I decided to make this movie and get straight to the point, without any metaphors." ...Auschwitz


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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Rubbish 25 July 2011
Format:DVD
Well I was expecting a war film. This was more like a badly put together documentary with poor acting, factually incorrect, infact a bit of an insult to the memory of those who died there. I can only agree with most of the other reviews and i certainly would not advise you to waste your money on this "film".
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars REALLY REALLY BAD!! 25 July 2011
By Annie
Format:DVD
Not only is this film highly inaccurate, its really badly acted, badly scripted and put together. Its something and really rubbish amateur film student would do.

I have watched nearly everything regarding this subject and I can confirm this is the worst, most stupidest film I've ever seen.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Dire. 4 Aug 2011
By T
Format:DVD
I picked this up in a store during a recent portcall. It's been abandoned to the ship's DVD library...

I didn't notice it was by Uwe Boll, else alarms would have rung and I'd have left it on the shelf. Like others, I thought it was going to be a proper movie, probably in the docu-drama genre. Well, it is a bit - once you get past the "interviews" with the surprisingly holocaust-ignorant German teenagers (I say "surprising" because, to the best of my knowledge, the holocaust is a non-negotiable part of the German curriculum, and holocaust denial is a criminal offence) you get a "docu-drama" of a day-in-the-life of the death camps, from the train arrival to the gassing. Apart from the poor direction and the even poorer script there are loads of inaccuracies. In the main, this seems to be a vehicle to indulge some sort of desire to get as many sets of male and female genitalia of a variety of ages in shot, which is where a glaring error reveals itself insofar as Brazilian waxing wasn't a thing of the time!!

But, really, that's a minor thing when it comes to the plethora of other "licenses" taken with history. From the moment the train pulls in they start to add up. In one brief clip some of the prisoners are seen dismounting a carriage, when prisoners were transported standing-room-only in cattle trucks, with the carriage in the train being provided for the guards. As the train arrives, a private soldier is smoking on the platform in an army where discipline was strict and smoking on duty was a no-no in the Wehrmacht let alone the SS. The commandant addresses soldiers with uniforms bearing SS flashes as "fahnrich" and "leutnant," when the SS equivalent ranks are "standartenjunker" and "untersharfuhrer" respectively. The commandant sits outside the gas chamber and socialises with an NCO, sharing (on duty!) a glass or two of schnapps, whilst looking out some jewellery to give to his wife (such theft from the Reich being a capital offence). The NCO in charge of the gas chamber (played by Boll) leans unmoved and completely detached against the gas chamber door as the victims hammer on it during the gassing when the antechamber was routinely cleared in case of leaks. As the "movie" progresses there seems to be less and less people in the gas chamber - in reality, it was filled to capacity on each use. Afterwards, the bodies are lying in their own space, arranged on the floor. The reality: desperate victims climbed over each other to reach the roof vent where the gas was dropped in in an effort to find clean air, resulting in a bloody, bruised pyramid in the middle of the room. They would also scratch deep gouges in the concrete with their fingers in panic. None of the junior ranks salute or even come to attention when the commandant or any other officer approaches or interacts with them - this is the SS, remember; an elite highly-disciplined and drilled unit in a highly-disciplined and drilled, regulation-driven military machine. Sure, if they were in the front lines dodging snipers the rules would be relaxed but this is in the rear of the rear. It's set in 1943, as far as I can tell, but the cast talk about the Russians being close enough to smell when at the end of 1943 they were still well to the east and had barely made the Polish border.

And so the mistakes roll on and on, in a travesty to the memories of the dead. Boll said it was time to reveal the "full horror" of the holocaust. Well, he didn't despite some gratuitous scenes. This is almost comic and a complete disrespecting and making light of the terror of the event. Watching this is like pulling teeth - and there's even an entirely unnecessary close-up scene involving just that.

Boll claimed this was a sensitive production. What's sensitive about on-camera scenes of toddlers being held down and shot in the back of the head? Or the gratuitously over-extended gassing scenes? Or the teeth-pulling...?

After the brief docu-drama bit we're back to the kids for some wash-up interviews. Not sure where these were filmed - the school janitor's store cupboard, perhaps? Very telling that the kids that have the best grasp of the holocaust are not the trace-my-roots-to-Atilla-the-Hun kids but the first gen' kids born to immigrant parents.

Avoid. Avoid like the plague. Do not waste your money. Unfortunately, Amazon won't let me give it zero stars. Buy Schindler's List and The Grey Zone instead.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Auschwitz
This film didn't really show the horrors of the Death camps we didn't feel as shocked with this film as others we have watched.
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. M. Blackman
1.0 out of 5 stars Eh...
It certainly didn't live up to expectations, it's just a few people acting out what happened in Auschwitz and interviews with school children in Germany about what they know of The... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Beppo
4.0 out of 5 stars Boll did what he set out to do
That said, the film is hard to watch. Any accurate portrayal of that time and place should be hard to watch. The film is not so much about characters or dialog. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dirk Winebarger
1.0 out of 5 stars Off The Mark!
The DVD did not capture the full extent of the horrors of Auschwitz. The producer is a nice guy with good intentions. Read more
Published 10 months ago by I. D. Gibbs
1.0 out of 5 stars What a load of crap
I paid £10 for this dvd as I love reading and watching things about the holocaust. The only way to decribe this film as crap and ameture. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Leah Knight
1.0 out of 5 stars This was not Auschwitz
I watched this film today, expecting from the build-up to be something more startling than Schindlers List. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Dracunis71
1.0 out of 5 stars Asked For This As A Christmas Present, So Disappointing!
Really Disappointed, I Visited Auschwitz In Poland And Have Been Trying To Learn More About The Concentration Camps Ever Since. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ms50/50
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn and Never Forget
What an absolutely awesome piece of filmwork this is. Part 'movie' in the broadest sense of the word and part documentary it covers the small space of truely horrific time that... Read more
Published 17 months ago by MGST
1.0 out of 5 stars Offputting..
I rented this film over the weekend to see what the hell..? The Uwe Boll hype is all about. OK, he's made a movie.. Read more
Published 17 months ago by W. Joseph
1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly realised
I have to confess I didn't really know who Uwe Boll was before watching this film. Having seen it though I can't say I'm surprised to learn that over 350,000 people signed an... Read more
Published 21 months ago by jijiandnoah
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