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QB VII was a five-hour mini-series, which was hailed as both a critical triumph and a milestone "television event" when it originally aired in 1974. Based on a Leon Uris novel, which itself was based on a libel trial that arose after Uris published Exodus, this fictionalised drama is essentially the story of two men, Dr. Adam Kelno, a Polish doctor who was imprisoned by the Nazis in a concentration camp, and Abe Cady, a successful Hollywood writer who publishes a serious book on the Holocaust that exposes Kelno's past. Playing Dr Kelno, Anthony Hopkins steals the show, and the nuances he brings to the character keep the audience guessing whether he is in fact a dedicated healer or a diabolical villain intent on papering over a fiendish past. Ben Gazzara is credible as the tough-talking Cady, but when Hopkins leaves the action for a time the film sags and begins to resemble an ordinary TV film. Eventually the two men's lives come into conflict when Kelno sues for libel. The trial, in a London courtroom (the "Queen's Bench VII" of the title), seeks to sort out the truth about the past of Dr Kelno. His precise activities during the war, and how the world deals with his past, receives intelligent and dramatic treatment. A cracking Jerry Goldsmith score keeps the drama centre stage. --Robert J McNamara, Amazon.com
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Adam Kelno has made it to England in the days following World War II. Having escaped from a death camp in Nazi Europe, he finds that his identification with anti-communists in Poland has made him a target of the Soviet Government, which brings up war crime charges against him in England. When the witness is unable to identify him as one of the doctors who castrated him, he is released. Kelno takes his wife and young son to Arabia where he labors for years upgrading public health standards. Upon his return to England he is Knighted. Twenty years have passed and he has just begun to enjoy his life of renown when a book is published that names him as a willing participant to Nazi medical experiments on Jews in the camps. He sues for defamation and finds that not only can he not escape his past, but that the plaintiff a defamation case has his own reputation on trial. QB VII refers to the courtroom in which the trial is held, Queen's Bench, Room 7.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
well done balanced film about a Nazi era doctor seeking defamation damages against a Jewish writer. Very well acted and intriguing. Hopkins and Gazzara do an excellent job. In some parts, the movie gets a little slow but overall a very good film. I liked the film's portrayal of the positive and negative sides of the characters. For such an emotionally charged topic, I thought the film was quite balanced.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Having remembered the first showing of QB VII on TV back in the seventies, I jumped at the chance to get hold of this DVD release. The film is split over two DVD's which neatly breaks up the 5 hours into (for me at least) two enjoyable evenings with the first DVD providing background and the second moving onto the trial. Dr. Adam Kelno escapes from a concentration camp when it is liberated and makes his way to London. Some years later he is accused by the Communist Polish Government of using his position as camp doctor to ingratiate himself with the Nazi's and of carrying out horrendous medical operations on the jewish inmates of the concentration camp. He successfully defends himself from this attempt to extradite him, travels to Kuwait where he gives exemplary service to the Arabs earning himself a knighthood, eventually returns to the UK and serves the poor through a clinic in London's East End. Meanwhile, playboy writer Abraham Cady writes a book accusing Kelno of the war crimes of which he was previously cleared and Kelno becomes determined to fight to clear his name. The trial ends up in court room seven of the Queen's Bench Division where the drama reaches its tense conclusion.
Enough twists and turns to keep you interested and good enough acting to be worthy of five stars, however be wary of the sound - it is in mono and is at times a little lacking so you may need to listen carefully!
Enough twists and turns to keep you interested and good enough acting to be worthy of five stars, however be wary of the sound - it is in mono and is at times a little lacking so you may need to listen carefully!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Interesting film about a Polish doctor who sued a Jewish-American writer by defamation. In a book written by the latter, the former is accused of having carried out terrible experiments on prisoners in a concentration camp during the war.
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