Fantastic

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2015)

Never seen Casablanca or Citizen Kane...but they must be spectacular to be rated higher than this film. Maybe its just the story and the characters but everything about this movie is great and memorable. It is the Mt. Everest of Holocaust films and the writing and directing makes you feel for even the characters with the smallest amount of screen time. Images that will remain with you include: Schindler looking for Stern at the train station, the little boy hiding in sewage and feces, the little girl making the slit throat gesture, the smoke at Auschwitz and the ash falling down, Danka leaving her hiding place to go be with her mother and many more. I admit the little girl in the red coat never impacted me.