KAPÒ · KAPO - Black Box Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

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KAPÒ - KAPO

I-F-JUG 1960 - 117 min - OmeU - digitalDCP - FSK 16 - D: Gillo Pontecorvo - B: Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo - C: Aleksandar Sekulovic, Goffredo Bellisario - D: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego, Gianni Garko and others.

Screening on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism.

With KAPÒ, Gillo Pontecorvo created one of the first European feature films to focus on the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. It centers on the young Jewish woman Edith, who only survives after being deported to the camp with the help of a new identity. As a so-called Kapo, a prisoner appointed by the SS with a supervisory function, she becomes part of a system that combines survival with guilt and moral ambivalence.
The historical significance of KAPÒ lies not only in its early fictional examination of the Shoah, but also in its intense critical reception: Jacques Rivette, for example, accused the film of a questionable aestheticization of suffering - an accusation that triggered a debate about ethics and responsibility in the cinematic representation of the Shoah that continues to this day. KAPÒ thus marks a turning point in European post-war cinema - as a work that addresses the political dimension of survival as well as the limits of the cinematic representation of historical crimes.

The film will be shown again on January 29 at 8 pm (without introduction).

Introduction on 27.1.: Joachim Manzin
(Filmforum - Freundeskreis des Filmmuseums)

Price information:

Admission 7 Euro - reduced 5 Euro - with Black Box Pass 4 Euro - ticket reservation Tel 0211 - 8992232