Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Direction
Pontecorvo's neo-realist brutality before The Battle of Algiers.
Acting
Strasberg's hollow-eyed transformation from victim to perpetrator.
Director
Gillo Pontecorvo
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