Very nice, very good... except they made the Nazis into blue-eyed pale folks

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2009)

Casting plus cosmetics equals....? It could have equaled historical authenticity along with a nice, worthwhile story. The film has some good ideas and some good production values.
Unfortunately, the producer's weird color agenda or fetish is revealed from the beginning to the end, as all basically all the Nazis are OSTENTATIOUSLY portrayed with pale skin and luminous blue eyes and the Jewish persons, of course, have "nicer" colors. The question that comes to mind is, "WAS THAT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE?" A second question is,"IF NOT, THEN WHY DID THEY PORTRAY IT THAT WAY?" .....A dark-haired, dark-eyed actor becomes a blonde, blue-eyed concentration camp commander. Was the Auchwitz camp commander a blonde, blue-eyed man with an all blue-eyed, pale-skinned family, as this movie suggests? .... If you care what's true, then how about researching this question at Amazon, wikipedia, google, ask.com etc?