This should have been called "The Hiding Place 2"

Rating: 7/10 (17 March 2004)

This film was not what I expected, which was something along the lines of the first half of Leon Uris' novel "Exodus"; a rousing bloodletter depicting the Jews as a down but not out band of rubble rousers kicking some major Kraut ass. Instead I got some weasely little musician skulking from hidey hole to hidey hole with the help of kindhearted, caring Poles. I never understood why this guy was the recipient of all this largesse nor why he was spared by a German officer who just happened along when it could just as easily have been Herr Jackboot and his lucky Luger. Also fortunate for me as I was convinced every human in a German uniform was a re-tread of Attilla the Hun. Not a bad picture but it was too long and full of holes, however that could be due to the rapid jumps through time. How this movie won so many oscars I don't know: seems that if a picture deals with the Holocaust it stands a better chance of being awarded. What about the other 7 million folks the Nazis' butchered, think we need a film about them?