Perhaps the Best Film About the Holocaust*

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2016)

*and that's saying a heck of a lot.
I saw the movie first and then read the book. Polanski did an uncanny job of bringing the book to the big screen. It is such a compelling story as are almost all of them on this subject. I'm sure that I'm not alone in my fascination with the horrors of WWII and the Nazi rise to power. I would have found it hard to live with myself had I escaped death in Eastern Europe without killing at least one Nazi bastard.
This movie portrays the Nazi era more accurately than any film I have ever seen. An unflinching and brutal film that only surfaced after the book was republished after the fall of the communist era.