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Last Days

The gruesome truth about the Holocaust is that it was very cinematic. There must be hundreds of documentaries about this lowest point in human affairs. Examining that evil, this is one of the best views. It encapsulates the entire horror by following five survivors from Hungary in the last year (the last days) of the "final solution." Because of the desperation of the Nazis in their final months, these Hungarian camps were the most horrendous. The survivors tell their personal stories while they return to their Hungarian hometowns and death camps 50 years later. It's the factual counterpart to Schindler's List, all the more dramatic because this documentary was produced by Steven Spielberg.

-- KK

Last Days
Directed by James Moll
1998, 87 min.
$18, DVD

Rent from Netflix

Available from Amazon

Posted on May 5, 2006 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0)



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