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Holocaust (1978)

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Film details

Featuring

Fritz Weaver Rosemary Harris Joseph Bottoms
Director

Marvin J. Chomsky
Country

USA
Year

1978
Type

Television

Synopsis

4-part TV film. Drama based on the Nazi persecution of the Jews from the 1930s to the end of World War II, following the effects on the Weiss family, a prosperous and cultured family who find themselves being shipped to the ghettos and concentration camps of Eastern Europe. It also follows the rise of Erik Dorf, the son of socialists, who joins the Nazi party from expediency but becomes a convert and rises rapidly in the ranks of the SS until he becomes one of the architects of the Nazi plans for the "final solution".

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Josef Weiss
    
    Fritz Weaver
  - Berta Weiss
    
    Rosemary Harris
  - Rudi Weiss
    
    Joseph Bottoms
  - Karl Weiss
    
    James Woods
  - Inga Helms Weiss
    
    Meryl Streep
  - Erik Dorf
    
    Michael Moriarty
  - Marta Dorf
    
    Deborah Norton
  - Uncle Kurt Dorf
    
    Robert Stephens
  - Moses Weiss
    
    Sam Wanamaker
  - Anna Weiss
    
    Blanche Baker
  - Adolph Eichmann
    
    Tom Bell
  - Heinrich Himmler
    
    Ian Holm
  - Reinhard Heydrich
    
    David Warner
  - Helena Slomova
    
    Tovah Feldshuh
  - Heinz Muller
    
    Tony Haygarth
  - Uncle Sasha
    
    Lee Montague
  - Lowy
    
    George Rose
  - Herr Palitz
    
    Marius Goring
  - Hans Frank
    
    John Bailey
  - Dr Kohn
    
    Charles Korvin
  - Frau Lowy
    
    Käte Jaenicke
  - Hoefle
    
    Sean Arnold
  - cast member
    
    Vernon Dobtcheff
  - cast member
    
    Edward Hardwicke
  - cast member
    
    Michael Beck
  - cast member
    
    John Collin
  - cast member
    
    Nigel Hawthorne
  - cast member
    
    Jeremy Levy
  - cast member
    
    David Daker
  - cast member
    
    Hans Meyer
  - cast member
    
    Oscar Quitak
  - cast member
    
    Werner Kreindl
  - cast member
    
    John Rees
  - cast member
    
    Stanley Lebor
  - cast member
    
    T.P. McKenna
  - cast member
    
    Peter Vogel
  - cast member
    
    Irene Prador
  - cast member
    
    Osman Ragheb
  - cast member
    
    Murray Salem
  - cast member
    
    Robert Sherman
  - cast member
    
    Nora Minor
  - cast member
    
    George Pravda
  - cast member
    
    Nina Sandt
  - cast member
    
    Gabor Vernon
  - cast member
    
    Llewellyn Rees
  - cast member
    
    Cyril Shaps
  - cast member
    
    Toby Salaman
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Marvin J. Chomsky
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Inc. Titus Productions
  - Executive Producer
    
    Herbert Brodkin
  - Producer
    
    Berger, Robert "Buzz"
  - Associate Producer
    
    Arnold, Pia I.
  Writing:
  - Script
    
    Gerald Green
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Brian West
  Editing:
  - Supervising Editor
    
    Stephen A. Rotter
  Design:
  - Production Designer
    
    Wilfrid Shingleton
  - Art Director
    
    Theo Harisch
  - Art Director
    
    Hans-Jürgen Kiebach
  Costumes:
  - Costumes
    
    Peggy Farrell
  - Costumes
    
    Edith Almoslino-Assmann
  Music:
  - Music
    
    Morton Gould

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