Holocaust (1978)
Holocaust (1978)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Holocaust is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Filmin, Amazon Prime Video
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Cast & Crew.
Tom Bell
Adolf Eichmann
Joseph Bottoms
Rudi Weiss
Tovah Feldshuh
Helena Slomova
Rosemary Harris
Berta Palitz Weiss
Tony Haygarth
Heinz Muller
Michael Moriarty
Erik Dorf
Deborah Norton
Marta Dorf
George Rose
Franz Lowy
Robert Stephens
Uncle Kurt Dorf
Meryl Streep
Inga Helms Weiss
Sam Wanamaker
Moses Weiss
David Warner
Heydrich
Fritz Weaver
Dr. Josef Weiss
Gerald Green
Creator / Novel / Screenplay / Screenplay / Writer / Novel
James Woods
Karl Weiss
Marilyn Johnson
Casting
Dan Sable
Sound Editor
Gerhard Ehringer
Gaffer
May Capsaski
Unit Production Manager
Morton Gould
Original Music Composer
Leonhard Gmür
Location Manager
Hans Jürgen Kiebach
Art Direction
Richard Richtsfeld
Special Effects
Blanche Baker
Anna Weiss
Martin Brandt
Rabbi Karsh
Jim Willis
Sound Mixer
Werner Kreindl
Herr Helms
Jimmy Turrell
Camera Operator
Götz von Langheim
Berlin Doctor
Peggy Farrell
Costume Designer
Nina Sandt
Frau Helms
Angela Allen
Script Supervisor
Wilfred Shingleton
Production Design
Stephen A. Rotter
Supervising Editor
Bernard Hayden
Sound Editor
Marijan David Vajda
Assistant Director
Edith Almoslino
Costume Designer
Michael Beck
Hans Helms
Dick Vorisek
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Maxi Hareiter
Set Decoration
Renate Arbes
Casting
Theodor Harisch
Art Direction
Ian Holm
Heinrich Himmler
Alan Heim
Editor
Helmut Klee
Gaffer
Lee Montague
Uncle Sasha
Brian Smedley-Aston
Editor
Isolde Barth
Eva
Käte Jaenicke
Frau Lowy
Brian West
Director of Photography
Peter Garell
Yuri
Pia Arnold
Associate Producer
Vernon Dobtcheff
Karp
Robert Berger
Producer
Jeremy Levy
Aaron Feldman
Herbert Brodkin
Executive Producer
Marius Goring
Heinrich Palitz
Cyril Shaps
Weinberg
Marvin J. Chomsky
Director
Erwin Steinhauer
Buchenwald Typist
Nora Minor
Frau Palitz
Llewellyn Rees
Father Lichtenberg
Jim Ambach
Peter Dorf
Hubert Berger
Dr. Heintzen
Gottfried Blahovsky
Immigration Man
Otto Clemens
Buchenwald Sergeant
Harry Hornisch
Gestapo Policeman
Karl Hoess
Buchenwald Prisoner
Peter Neusser
Border Guard
Bernd Hall
Buchenwald SS Guard
Nikolai Hantoff
Soviet Captain
Edward Hardwicke
Biberstein
Nigel Hawthorne
Ohldendorf
Miriam Mahler
Woman With Infant
Stephan Paryla-Raky
Sgt. Foltz
Walter Scheuer
Prague Policeman
Karl Schulz
Polish Policeman
Bruno Thost
Kapo Melnick
Joe Trummer
Czech Jew
Jeffrey Zach
Partisan Boy
John Bailey
Hans Frank
Vera Borek
Nadya
Wolfgang Lesowsky
Engleman
Jan Odle
Aaron's Classmate
Oscar Quitak
Tesch
John Rees
Colonel Arthur Nebe
Toby Salaman
Kovel
Ortwin Speer
Warsaw Ghetto Policeman
Edward Winter
Torture Guard
Sean Arnold
Hoefle
Peter Capell
Seder Man
Ulli Chivall
Vanya
John Collin
Rahm
David Daker
Rudolf Hoess
Edward Gilkrist
Teen Peter Dorf
Courtney Hill
Teen Laura Dorf
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 16, 1978
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes4
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Holocaust (full title: Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss) (1978) is an American television miniseries which aired on NBC over four nights, from April 16 — April 20, 1978.
It dramatizes the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family, fictional Berlin Jews Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), his wife Berta (Rosemary Harris), and their three children—Karl (James Woods), an artist married to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian woman; Rudi (Joseph Bottoms); and teenage Anna (Blanche Baker). It also follows Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), a fictional "Aryan" lawyer who becomes a Nazi out of economic necessity, rising within the SS and gradually becoming a war criminal.
Holocaust highlights numerous events which occurred both up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the construction of Jewish ghettos, the Nazi T4 Euthanasia Program, and, later, the construction of death camps and the use of gas chambers.
The miniseries won several awards and received positive reviews, but was also criticized. In The New York Times, Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel wrote that it was "Untrue, offensive, cheap: As a TV production, the film is an insult to those who perished and to those who survived." However, the series played a major role in public debates on the Holocaust in West Germany after its showing in 1979, and its impact has been described as "enormous".
The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe the extermination of the European Jews.