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Auschwitz (2011)

Drama | 70 minutes
2,11 118 votes

Genre: Drama / Documentary

Duration: 70 minuten

Country: Canada / Germany

Directed by: Uwe Boll

Stars: Arved Birnbaum, Maximilian Gartner and Uwe Boll

IMDb score: 3,2 (1.790)

Releasedate: 11 February 2011

Auschwitz plot

"The most harrowing portrayal of the ultimate crime against humanity."

In "Auschwitz" Uwe Boll asks German schoolchildren what they know about the Holocaust and specifically about the events in Auschwitz. When the film comes to the conclusion that this is very little, it switches to gruesome images of Auschwitz. No main characters or heroes; just a presentation of the facts.

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dvdcrusher

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Moving documentary about the Auschwitz concentration camp. Shocking images, nothing is left to the imagination. The gassing scenes were a bit too frequent for me, but after the first time I figured it out. The interviews that show how little young people know about the persecution of Jews in Germany are astonishing. I also see Nazism on the rise here in Belgium. Among the youth, Nazism is cool and trendy and the 1930s are clearly not far away. High time that this documentary was shown in all schools. 4 stars

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K. V.

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This film/documentary is not really a film that will make you happy. The film mainly focuses on the gas chambers. After the film part, there are also interviews with young people about what they still know about the Holocaust.

The DVD also contained a documentary with historical footage about the liberation of Auschwitz.

Still, it was worth seeing how horrible it all was. It is also sad to see that the ready knowledge of the youth sometimes leaves much to be desired.

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Aapje81

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I recently discovered that there are quite a few films by Uwe Boll on You Tube and this Auschwitz is one of them, despite its intense content.

The film starts with a bilingual sermon from the director himself, who wants to justify his timely documentary by addressing the youth's ignorance about the Holocaust. We are presented with a few frenetic and slightly hilarious interviews with the young people in which Boll fires his questions at the young people in a dictatorial manner.

After fifteen minutes, Uwe thinks his point is clear and an unsubtle 45 minutes begins in which a random working day in Auschwitz is depicted. Roughly speaking this means: Welcoming Jews, executing them, gassing them and then chatting about the proceeds of the working day.

The main problem with this cross between documentary and film is that nothing at all feels authentic. Uwe is of course right to be angry about the ignorance about the Holocaust, but this documentary that he delivers is so cheaply put together that it doesn't feel relevant anywhere. Uwe shouts from the rooftops that the Holocaust is a major scandal in history and every reasonable person will agree with him. Because he has little or nothing to offer in terms of content, he only comes across as a louder pusher who, if necessary, needs to pay attention to a theme that has been developed and presented much better by others.

Uwe Boll is nowhere authentic here and scores easily with the well-known name of a concentration camp.

It's cheap, sickening and empty. Uwe is of course known for his incredibly bad films, but this one is even worse because it has a certain pretension but never rises above the level of a hollow barrel.

Very bad.

Uwe has made a bunch of films that are unintentionally a lot more fun than this rubbish.

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