Kapo

1960, 1h 57min -

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. Show more

"Kapo" — movie produced in France, Italy and Yugoslavia and released in 1960. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.6 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 57min. "Kapo" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!