Truly Awful, a Cheap Shot

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2008)

As a Holocaust scholar I found this movie to be terribly inaccurate and a cheap ploy to wring emotions from the crowd. I was truly disappointed by this film which promised to offer a new insight into the events of the Holocaust by seeing it through the eyes of a child. Instead the film felt like a lame B-Movie trying to make the audience jump and squirm and cry without actually drawing them into a story with any substance. I spent so much time watching the screen intently looking for meaning I wound up with a headache, and I have never heard so many angry mutterings after a film ended as I did in that theater. Please do not waste your time on this film, if you wish to see an accurate and actually moving portrayal of the Holocaust, see "Schindler's List," "Holocaust," "Uprising," or "The Grey Zone."