Kapò 1960 DVDRip Sonata Premiere

Edith (Susan Strasberg) is a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl from Paris who arrives at a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Sure to be exterminated, Edith is saved by a doctor who helps her assume the identity of a non-Jewish, recently deceased political prisoner. Known now as "Nicole," she is sent to another camp where she rises in rank to prison guard, or "kapo." The young woman begins to abuse her power and treats the inmates with considerable brutality. The influence of a Russian prisoner (Laurent Terzieff), combined with a friend's suicide, awakens Edith to what she has become. She decides to sacrifice herself in an attempt to liberate the otherwise doomed prisoners, thus redeeming her cruel behavior. Kapo is one of a few dramatic features from Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriter Franco Solinas. Two years after the U.S. release of this film (which was actually four years after production), they would collaborate on their highly acclaimed, realistic war drama, La Battaglia d' Algeri/Battle of Algiers (1966).