Kapò
Before he left his mark on cinema forever with the revolutionary The Battle of Algiers, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo directed this audacious World War II drama about a young Jewish woman (Susan Strasberg) in a Nazi concentration camp, who saves herself from death by assuming another’s identity and becoming a ruthless warden. The Oscar-nominated Kapò was one of the first films to depict the horror of the Holocaust, and it does so with brutality and daring emotional complexity.
Cast
- Susan Strasberg
- Edith, alias Nicole Niepas
- Emmanuelle Riva
- Terese
- Laurent Terzieff
- Sascha
- Didi Perego
- Sofia
- Gianni Garko
- Karl
Credits
- Director
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Producer
- Franco Cristaldi
- Producer
- Moris Ergas
- Story and screenplay by
- Franco Solinas
- Story and screenplay by
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Cinematography
- Alexandar Sukulovic
- Cinematography
- Goffredo Bellisario
- Editing
- Roberto Cinquini
- Art direction
- Piero Gherardi
- Music
- Carlo Rustichelli
- Music
- Gillo Pontecorvo
