Ghetto
Ghetto
| 08 June 2006 (USA)
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In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.

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kickapoo2-512-55328

Oberscharfuehrer Bruno Kttel, as the rank would suggest, was a member of the SS....then why is he wearing a Wehrmacht hat and uniform? And this is only the beginning of this fiasco of a movie. Can anyone who knows anything about the period imagine an SS officer and his cronies, both German and Lithuanian, holding what seems to be drinkee-winkies with Jews? Oskar Schindler spent a few days in jail because he gave an avuncular kiss to a Jewish woman. In regard to physical relations between "Aryans" and Jews, called Rassenschande (Race Shame), Kittel and cohorts would have face imprisonment or worse for what's whimsically portrayed in this film. Kittel may have played the saxophone but it was on the local radio station and not wish Jewish musicians and comedians.If there was ever a movie that deserved a "0", it's this one.

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Hafter Houwen

Very good work, i must confess i've not seen another work of this director beside this movie.The good. The main characters are very well shaped, the artist crew, it-s so real, i have several friends that are actors, dancers, and singers, and the environment is so alike, i can see the director really knows how it is, how it feels. The Nazi guy, is the main actor, so sensitive and so unsure of what he is really doing, he was just 22 for god's sake. The end is magnificent the final performance of the main actor!!! the masacre, and at the end, there is no need of act, there is no need of keep the appearances... he could really choose what he wanted, her music and left the teather for the actors entrance.The bad. When the girl singed looked fake, she did not breath as a singer does, she should have worked on making that look real.

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Globo436

This movie has apparently not been released in the US, but I found it available on DVD in Beijing, of all places. It takes place during the war in the ghetto in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania and shows the brutality of war, with a Nazi leader forcing Jews to perform as actors, and using the Jewish police to carry out orders. It is somewhat melodramatic with some comedic elements, but overwhelmingly brutal. I don't know is this is based on a true story or fictional. The acting was generally good, with some high and low points. There have been better holocaust films, but as one of the genre, this one is not too bad. The film was in English, but was likely dubbed. Amazingly it was a Lithuanian-German production, which in itself is somewhat ground breaking.

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dirty_dozen86

I think the movie had to much singing in it. It's about a woman (a Jew) who steals the heart of a Nazi army officer and due to her beautiful voice, which gives him great amusement, she saves innocent lives including hers. I thought Ghetto would be like Schindlers list or even more the Pianist . This movie never even came close to the movies mentioned above. If you like opera in different way you would probably like this movie. Well, I did not and had to push my self to the limit to see it to the end. Some parts of the movie were pretty intense and cruel, nevertheless there was to much singing in Ghetto to get my attention.

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