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A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total
Dragomir Felba
- Salomon Lejtman
- (as Felba Dragomir)
Semka Sokolovic-Bertok
- Prisoner
- (as Semca Sokolovic)
Dirjana Dojic
- Ninette
- (as Dirjana Dojc)
Graziella Durano
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Sima Janicijevic
- Doctor who changes Edith's name
- (uncredited)
Rastislav Jovic
- Yanko Milovich
- (uncredited)
Dusan Perkovic
- Commandant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGillo Pontecorvo's favorite of his own movies.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, Edith walks past some shops on her way back home. One of the shops look like it belongs to the booming 1950s than the more austere WWII period. There is a toy car or baby push car in the store window that shows the typical car design of the 1950s.
- Quotes
Edith, alias Nicole Niepas: [to Sasha] Your mother won't like me, I'm not a good girl, and my name's not Nicole, I'm a Jew.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992)
Featured review
Surprisingly Realistic
I was not previously aware of this gem. I found it on TCM after it had already been on for about 10 minutes. I kept thinking that the lead actress looked just like SUSAN STRASBERG & for good reason. It was. The fact that it was foreign with sub-titles threw me initially. Very realistic, almost raw, which was surprising considering that this movie was made in 1959.
STRASBERG as 'Nicole' works her way up through a concentration camp to become the woman in charge of her fellow prisoners. Strong language, violent situations, but this is a story about WWII, not the 'Enchanted Forest'. Good storyline, good direction, & a terrific performance by SUSAN STRASBERG that was all the more admirable when you realize that she was all of 20,21 when she made this.
STRASBERG as 'Nicole' works her way up through a concentration camp to become the woman in charge of her fellow prisoners. Strong language, violent situations, but this is a story about WWII, not the 'Enchanted Forest'. Good storyline, good direction, & a terrific performance by SUSAN STRASBERG that was all the more admirable when you realize that she was all of 20,21 when she made this.
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- Kelt Smith
- Feb 28, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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