Stamped with authenticity

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2002)

There may have been better written films about the holocaust - but this is without the most authentic and touching account I have seen since Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary "Shoah" - as you might expect from director Polanski, himself a child survivor of the Krakov and Warsaw ghettos.
Here he eschews melodrama, and the pornography of violence to present of film which is full of love, life and hope amidst terrible events.